Quotes by Edward Ellsberg

“(A slide rule always impresses, giving to the bystanders a feeling that the user thereof knows what he’s about and will shortly come up with the answer.)”

“Even so I had always come up after a dive numbed and stiff from the cold, requiring a powerful “submarine cocktail,” a pint of hot coffee and whisky, mixed half-and-half, to help thaw me out.”

“But wait till Ike had to deal with de Gaulle, whom I had seen in the Middle East. Giraud then would seem to Ike the acme of rational and complaisant Frenchmen.”