Incompatible

Famous quotes containing the word incompatible:

“English general and singular terms, identity, quantification, and the whole bag of ontological tricks may be correlated with elements of the native language in any of various mutually incompatible ways, each compatible with all possible linguistic data, and none preferable to another save as favored by a rationalization of the native language that is simple and natural to us.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

“The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

“You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writer ... something old-adamish, incompatible to the “ordinary world.””
—D.H. (David Herbert)