We shall have a race of men who are strong on telemetry and space communications but who cannot read anything but a blueprint or write anything but a computer program.

Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.

A [New Yorker ] is what it has always been. It combines those who pursue the truth with those who pursue the rewards of orthodoxy and those who pursue what is comfortable to the rich.

Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something or the other. All of that has disappeared thanks to Lyndon Johnson.

Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater.

I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the terrible cruelty of poverty.