Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.

To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?

War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.

The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.