Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.

There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!

Visualizing the movement finally got me over the top after months of practice.

Got it. Demon. Death. Doom.

Enjoy the times of plentiful and endure the times of scarcity.

Forgetting nature is like forgetting your mother. Remember you are a child of nature. You are connected to it and belong to it. So don’t forget to protect her.

I lived with my mother for only a short time. Even though I left, she is always surrounding me with her love.

Patent Validity is a figment of legal interpretation, it can be contested, reversed and cancelled any time before expiry

One of the worst things you can give to your people is someone you're not.

In the last stages of a final illness, we need only the absence of pain and the presence of family.

I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.

If my baby don't love me no more, I know her sister will.

But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.