Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.