A little more money won't do you any good - because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can make in any normal occupation, regardless of the amount.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

Some things, the more you understand the more you loathe them.

Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.

...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.

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

Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor.