By 1985, machines will be capable of doing any work Man can do.

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

One finds limits by pushing them.

Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.

Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent.

Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds.

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.

Human beings know a lot of things, some of which are true, and apply them. When we like the results, we call it wisdom.

Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena.

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

Automatic praise is a mere succession of noises.

Simple is never that simple.

ability is of no value without discipline. Winning has no style or substance without humility.

I did radio, I did television, I did opera, I did films in which I had very, very little to say. But I had a lot of experience in front of the camera, and that's what really counts.

In regard to infallibility, I never claimed it; God alone is infallible. His word is true, and in Him is no variableness, or shadow of turning.

When you get there, there isn't any there there.

The fact that I'm a performer helps me enormously as a lyricist.

Do I want to be right or be happy?

There is a vast need for all types of protest today, whether it be civil disobedience, or whether it be on a - more conventional variety.