What is true is that the idea of power corrupts. Power corrupts most rapidly those who believe in it, and it is they who will want it most. Obviously, our democratic system tends to give power to those who hunger for it and gives every opportunity to those who don't want power to avoid getting it. Not a very satisfactory arrangement if power corrupts those who believe in it and want it.

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.

The meaning of your communication is the response you get.

What is true is that the idea of power corrupts. Power corrupts most rapidly those who believe in it, and it is they who will want it most. Obviously, our democratic system tends to give power to those who hunger for it and gives every opportunity to those who don't want power to avoid getting it. Not a very satisfactory arrangement if power corrupts those who believe in it and want it.

People are going to have to make themselves predictable, or the machines will get angry and kill them.

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.

In the nature of the case, an explorer can never know what he is exploring until it has been explored.