All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

The future ain't what it used to be.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.