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.

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

Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And maybe technology always wins.

Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it.

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

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

Somewhere we taught ourselves that our opinions are more significant than the facts. And somehow we get our egos and our opinions and Truth all mixed up in a single package, so that when something does challenge one of the notions to which we subscribe, we react as if it challenges us.