It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

I just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school.

Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.

The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.

The most wounding insult to an educated Russian was to be called nekulturny-uncultured-yet the same men who sat in the gilt boxes at the Moscow State Opera weeping at the end of a performance of Boris Gudunov could immediately turn around and order the execution or imprisonment of a hundred men without blinking. A strange people, made more strange by their political philosophy.