Remember: in order for a perception to change one must be frustrated in one's actions or change one's purpose.

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.

We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.

At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

Oblivion is the place where all my best thoughts reside or I must say hide.

All lines are gray in the dark.

There's one best thing about childhood our genuine smile...

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.

We're all who we are endlessly.

One of my responsibilities is to make sure that justice is done for our citizens . . . . I want this case to be completed. Until that happens, it will continue to burden our relationship.

I'm a firm believer that all sports will eventually be global. Someday, we may have a quarterback from China named Yao Fling.

One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.