One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.

Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.