Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.

if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history.

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

Really good ideas are always good beyond what you anticipated originally.

Computers make people stupid.

We can't share the earth with pure evil anymore than we can share the earth with smallpox.

I think the print media have failed to make the most of their opportunity. They may all disappear because they are approaching things in the wrong way.

Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't.

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?

The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed.

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.

If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.

I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot.

Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.

The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.

It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities.

I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.

I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government.

My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.