I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.

Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but where human judgment abdicates. The smoothest machine-made product of the age is the organization man, for even the best organizing principle tends to corrupt, and the mechanical principle corrupts absolutely.

After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene.

The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.

The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly. The subject - as sculptors themselves are fond of saying - is hidden in the block of material.

I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.