Oh, for a pin that would puncture pretension!

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.

The essential building block is...the true love that is impossible to define for those who have never experienced it and unnecessary to define for those who have.

It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.

It took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have touched, in one way or another, on every aspect of computers and computerization. And (mark this!) I did it without ever knowing anything at all about computers in any real sense. To this day, I don't. I am totally inept with machinery... on my typewriter I turn out books at the contemptible rate of one a month

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.