Almost everything about a human creature is ridiculous, except its ability to suffer bravely and die gallantly for whatever it loves and believes in. The validity of that belief, the appropriateness of that love, is irrelevant; it is the bravery and the gallantry that count.

Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language - and civilization will rise or fall, depending on how well librarians do their jobs.

The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force.

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

The only thing privacy laws accomplish is making the bugs smaller.

I did the only really brave thing I have ever done in my life: I inched forward.