The ultimate test's always your own serenity. If you don't have this when you start and maintain it while you're working you're likely to build your personal problems right into the machine itself.

Science values static patterns.

The kid who is scared is the one the bullies go after. I used to get beat up pretty badly.

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is.

I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world. Or the fear of heretics...What's happening is that each year our old flat earth of conventional reason becomes less and less adequate to handle the experiences we have and this is creating wide-spread feelings of topsy-turviness. As a result we're getting more and more people in irrational areas of thought...occultism, mysticism, drug changes and the like...because they feel an inadequacy in classical reason to handle what they know are real experiences.

If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas