A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous

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

Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations. The number of possible combinations rises exponentially as the number of new machines or techniques rises arithmetically. Indeed, each new combination may, itself, be regarded as a new super-machine.

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.

Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.