These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

We make versions, and true versions make worlds.

Once the rain starts falling it's hard to tell it to stop...

A conclusion is the place you get to when you’re tired of thinking.

The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

You can be this super-successful woman who's smart and effective but still feminine. When I worked in finance, I didn't always think that was possible.

When diplomacy ends, War begins.

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how we should be talking about architecture.

I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive.

I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.