One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it.

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake.

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one has incentive to maintain it.

See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places.

Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whisky, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without feeling a thing or, at least, without letting on.

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history.

A woman holy duty is to respect a man.

The beginning of every writing session is like setting down a road unknown.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

Keynes did not teach us how to perform the miracle of turning a stone into bread, but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating the seed corn.

It ain't about who ya love, it's all about do ya love.

You get these insurgent movements of populism, left and right. An insurgent movement of populism took my political party over in the UK for example.

I've been collaborating a lot, because I like working that way. It's fun and keeps you moving forward.

Nobody saw it, he (Rogers Hornsby) hit it and it disappeared.

I believe we have all this image stuff and blah, blah, blah but at the end of the day it all boils down to music don't you think?