History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.

Too darned good a machine can be a menace, not a help.

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence.

Never accept the initial premise of the opposition.

That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned.

Pioneering basically amounts to finding new and more horrible ways to die