If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.

Learning . . . is - also an end in itself.

Never encourage a man to cook breakfast; it cause him to wonder if women are necessary.

Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just as math is the key -- and we will survive or founder, depending on how well the librarians do their jobs. Librarians didn't look glamorous to me but maybe Dad had hit on a not very obvious truth.

The average bloke . . . hates and fears all freedom, not only for others but for himself, and stamps it out wherever possible.

Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.

Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out.