The great secret of the successful fool is that he's no fool at all

People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence.

I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear.

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.

The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.