Cliches and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be. But one does not convert individuals into mass people with the simple coining of a mass term.

The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.

Data without generalization is just gossip.

If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

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