The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

What you cannot control, you must accept.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage.

Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.

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.

What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?