I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.

We live in a world of frightful givens. It is given that you will behave like this, given that you will care about that. No one thinks about the givens. Isn't it amazing? In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.

There is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us.

Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.

Although knowledge of how things work is sufficient to allow manipulation of nature, what humans really want to know is why things work. Children don't ask how the sky is blue. They ask why the sky is blue.

Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.