They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.
In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.
To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail.
The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.
If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.
Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.
Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.
The system didn’t screw you. The system revealed you.
Anyone who says he knows God’s intention is showing a lot of very human ego.
You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don’t have the right to abandon him just because he’s inconvenient or has trouble in school.
This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren’t.
Exercise invigorates the body and sharpens the mind.
Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including newborn infants.
False fears are a plague, a modern plague!
Expectation works in mysterious ways – and totally unconsciously.
Geniuses never pay attention.
Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.
All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they’ll tell you will be wrong.
For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.
All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don’t you take it away from yourself.