The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.

The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of license that distinguishes New York. It is rather, a lust of the total ego for recognition, even for eminence. More than elsewhere, everybody here wants to be somebody.

The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes the jump; the second shuns reason entirely — which is why superstition is not the ally, but the enemy, of true religion.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.