The real news is bad news.

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

Some of my fellow academics are very hostile, but I sympathize with them. They've been asleep for 500 years and they don't like anybody who comes along and stirs them up.

To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.

Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

The answers are always inside the problem, not outside.