Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.

And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

The more you read, the more you calm down.

My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.

Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?

Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?