Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.

A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.

I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.

A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.

Somewhere in me is a curiosity sensor. I want to know what's over the next hill. You know, people can live longer without food than without information. Without information, you'd go crazy.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.