It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.

What would happen is that people like Geroge and Alyx would grow old and die chasing a dream. Although there were probably worse things to do with one's life.

Intelligence is like pornography. I can't define it, but I know if when I see it.

If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.

There are few professions whose primary objective is to advance the cause of humanity rather than simply to make money or accrue power. Among this limited group of humanitarians I would number teachers, nurses, bookstore owners, and bartenders.

The uplifters are forever running around telling blockheads they would do better if they would believe in themselves. But they already do. That is why they are blockheads.

Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.