My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

Knowledge is a free good. The biggest cost in its transmission is not in the production or distribution of knowledge, but in its assimilation. This is something that all teachers know.

Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at market rates.

Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty.

Unsolved problems, that's one of the great signs of progress in my opinion.

The world is changing. We're not really proceeding on a stationary basis.

One thing I learned from meteorology is that being an actual science was no guarantee of exactness.

Education is still, in spite of private education, a state matter.

The MD is well aware that the forecasts are no good but he needs them for planning purposes.

Usefulness depends on tractability.

Venture capital has done much more, I think, to improve efficiency than anything.

It's impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It's the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.

I don’t think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad.

When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end.

We are here to spend ourselves on others; for each person is a great treasure.

It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

Self-certification may look like a small vision but there cannot be a greater decision for a Government to trust the honesty of the 1.25 billion people of the country.

For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.

He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth.

Signs of a maddening system of writing and counting that calibrates the values of something the poet does not yet know. Praxis is therefore poetics.