Computers make people stupid.

The first step is always to succeed in becoming surprised - to notice that there is something funny going on.

We can't share the earth with pure evil anymore than we can share the earth with smallpox.

Surprise is the beginning of wisdom.

If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?

The future was and remains the quintessential American art form. Other nations sit back and let their futures happen; we construct ours. We can let the future happen, or take the trouble to imagine it. We can imagine it dark or bright - and in the long run, that's how it will be.

if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history.