Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand.

[The historical] development in the international system may almost be defined as the process by which we pass from stable war to stable peace.

We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.

All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information.

Knowledge exists in minds, not in books. Before what has been found can be used by practitioners, someone must organize it, integrate it, extract the message.

At the opposite pole from the gift is tribute - that is, a grant made out of fear and under threat. A threat is a statement of the form "you do something that I want or I will do something that you do not want.

Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand.