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

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.

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 may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

To escape criticism - do nothing say nothing be nothing.

That daily life is really good one appreciates when one wakes from a horrible dream or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?

Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine.

RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual.

If you believe in God you get to the point where (you feel) "Yeah, you know what, God forgave my sins but I still have to forgive myself."

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

The history of America is the history of a genocide that didn't end yet, the genocide of American civilizations.

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

From the moment you make a decision, you lock your thoughts in a set mold.