McCarthy may refer to:
- McCarthy (surname) (article includes many notable persons with this surname)
- McCarthy, Alaska, United States
- McCarthy (band), an indie pop band
- Château MacCarthy, a Bordeaux wine
- McCarthy Tétrault, a Canadian law firm
- McCarthy evaluation, programming-language semantics also called short-circuit evaluation, named after John McCarthy (computer scientist)
Famous quotes containing the word mccarthy:
“A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
“It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
“... friendship ... is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)