Tell me what your vision of the future and I will tell you what you are.

When the dominant images of a culture are anticipatory, they "lead" social development and provide direction for social change.

Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth.

That's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does.

The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters’ food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them.

If you can't laugh at yourself, don't worry others will…!

Abstract knowledge is not enough. At the end of the day, it's about how one reacts to circumstances in an extreme real-time situation.

If I was a billionaire, I'd be smart with my money.

Herr Altenburg, I can't; I have vertigo.' And Marek looked at him: 'All right - I'll get the chemist to fix me something.

I'm happy to belong to this group of top champions having excelled here.

I feel great. I had a triple bypass in 1976 and a quadruple bypass in 1984.

Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.