Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

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

You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it.

If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something can be done he is almost certainly right. If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong.

It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth — but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it…but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying.

In a family argument, if it turns out you are right, apologize at once.