Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.