Futurologists have been multiplying like flies since the day Herman Kahn made Cassandra's profession "scientific," yet somehow not one of them has come out with the clear statement that we have wholly abandoned ourselves to the mercy of technological progress. The roles are now reversed: humanity becomes, for technology, a means, an instrument for achieving a goal unknown and unknowable.

We are like snails, each stuck to his own leaf.

A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other.

A specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded.

For moral reasons I am an atheist - for moral reasons. I am of the opinion that you would recognize a creator by his creation, and the world appears to me to be put together in such a painful way that I prefer to believe that it was not created by anyone than to think that somebody created this intentionally.

Burn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure.

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.