There is no safety this side of the grave

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.

...revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications.

Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.

I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.

It was equally imperative that this chain of reactions should always tend to dampen, to die out. It must not build up, or the uranium mass would explode within a time interval too short to be measured by any means whatsoever. Nor would there be anyone left to measure it.

Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.