Computers make people stupid.

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.

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.

Readable text and authority so that readers know how to spend - no matter how much information there is, I have the same number of minutes in my day, and I need to look to sources that I trust.

I couldn't make it in a chicken world, sir, so I hit the road in search of something better.

The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.

Rock and roll seems to have had a mellowing in the business where it got harder to sell individual records and make money doing that.

The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means that each of us is free to go our own way, even if the ways some of us may choose to go seem sinful or shocking to our fellow citizens.

There was a man sitting in the dining room of the Titanic, he said: "I know I asked for ice, but this is ridiculous."

Blood!...Blood!... That's a good thing! A ghost who bleeds is less dangerous!

A chainsaw's God's way of evening out the playing field between you and everything, even the invisible stuff.

And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.

If there's an incursion I don't go out of the house.

Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.