The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect--but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.

The further a device is removed from human control, the more authentically mechanical it seems, and the whole trend in technology has been to devise machines that are less and less under direct human control and more and more under their own apparent will.

Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.

There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.

It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."

They don't want equal time - they want all the time there is.