No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.

I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.

Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all.

Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.