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

When I die I won't go to heaven or hell; there will just be nothingness.

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.

With both people and computers on the job, computer error can be more quickly tracked down and corrected by people and, conversely, human error can be more quickly corrected by computers. What it amounts to is that nothing serious can happen unless human error and computer error take place simultaneously. And that hardly ever happens.

When I sit down at the typewriter, I write. Someone once asked me if I had a fixed routine before I start, like setting up exercises, sharpening pencils, or having a drink of orange juice. I said, "No, the only thing I do before I start writing is to make sure that I'm close enough to the typewriter to reach the keys."

And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.

To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.