Gould Quotes

(on Elliott Gould) He was the first person to teach me to enjoy acting. He never throws a tantrum, never gets into a snit.

(The delay - and the subsequent spread of lasers into many areas of technology - meant that the patents were much more valuable than if he had won initially. Even though Mr. Gould had signed away 80 percent of the proceeds in order to finance his court costs,) he made millions upon millions of dollars, ... Even at the 20 percent he was left with, he in his last years was a rich man.

Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

(On Elliott Gould) He knows exactly what he wants and how to get it.

I agree with Gould that the frequency of stasis in fossil species revealed by the recent analysis was unexpected by most evolutionary biologists.