. . . Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world.

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it. People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross. People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.

It is inescapable that every culture must negotiate with technology, whether it does so intelligently or not. A bargain is struck in which technology giveth and technology taketh away.

Remember: in order for a perception to change one must be frustrated in one's actions or change one's purpose.

An educated mind is practiced in the uses of reason, which inevitably leads to a skeptical outlook.