The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.
A good liar must have a good memory.
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
Courage is grace under pressure.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.
In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.
The battle for women's rights has been largely won.