In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

One finds limits by pushing them.

Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.

Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent.

Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds.

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.

Human beings know a lot of things, some of which are true, and apply them. When we like the results, we call it wisdom.

Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena.

In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.

I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.

The city is not the problem; the city is the solution.

If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.

I live for now, not for what happens after I die. I'm going to hell, not heaven. The devil has all the good gear. What's God got? The Inspiral Carpets and nuns.

A flower is an educated weed.

Do not confuse the command to love with the disease to please.

I hate it when people try to act cool. I hope they all get gonorreah and die.

Everything was good. But it was awful, too.

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.