If you want data to survive, carve it in rock.

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

Throughout our long and sorry history it has been men who supposed themselves to be exemplars of integrity who have done all the damage. Every crusade, whether for decent literary standards or to cover women's bodies or to free the holy land, had been launched, endorsed, and enthusiastically perpetrated by men of character.

It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.

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

If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.

I'm prepared to concede that stupidity does not help survival. One must after all understand not to poke a tiger with a stick. But intelligence leads to curiosity, and curiosity has never been a quality that helps one pour his or her genes into the pool. The truth must lie somewhere between. Whatever the reason, it is clearly mediocrity, at best, that lives and breeds.