Science promised man power. But, as so often happens when people are seduced by promises of power, the price is servitude and impotence. Power is nothing if it is not the power to choose.

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.

Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive

Being personally acquainted with a number of Waldorf students, I can say that they come closer to realizing their own potential than practically anyone I know.

Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

I am one of those people who are blessed ... with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

Now I have begun to get interested in films and I just hope that people start becoming interested in me to do more films.

Ultimately, if you are doing great work, the money will come.

The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.

My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had to go to the high-achieving, academic public high school.

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.