Friendships are nice. So is competence.

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.

The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.

They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens.

Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.

In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A sense of time on our hands, a sense of nothing to do. A sense that we are not amused.

A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.