The archetype of all humans, their ideal image, is the computer, once it has liberated itself from its creator, man. The computeris the essence of the human being. In the computer, man reaches his completion.

A story has been thought to its conclusion when it has taken its worst possible turn.

The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

A world is in flames, and you are cracking silly jokes.

We are not cave dwellers anymore, we live in the age of technology. When someone needs a car, he does not need to build it. He can buy it. When someone needs a murder, he himself does not need to kill. He can order it.

What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven, it has everything to hope for from this earth.