You must accept that if the computer is a tool, it is the job of tool user to know what to use it for.

Communication always makes demands. It always demands that the recipient become somebody, do something, believe something. It always appeals to motivation.

The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.

The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is incompetence. Strength is always specific! Nobody ever commented, for example, that the great violinist Jascha Heifetz probably couldn't play the trumpet very well.

Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!

Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.

The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader's charisma. What matters is the leader's mission.