Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't.

if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history.

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

Really good ideas are always good beyond what you anticipated originally.

Computers make people stupid.

We can't share the earth with pure evil anymore than we can share the earth with smallpox.

I think the print media have failed to make the most of their opportunity. They may all disappear because they are approaching things in the wrong way.

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?

The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed.

Readable text and authority so that readers know how to spend - no matter how much information there is, I have the same number of minutes in my day, and I need to look to sources that I trust.

He patted the side of the wyrm's head. The animal did not react: it was a stone fallen from the sky, still smoldering.

When everyone is poor you don't know you're poor. My father worked so some of the boys thought I was actually rich.

Fear is and has always been dead. It's how we picture it that makes fear come to life.

I find beauty in a very independent state. It lives quietly. It's there to be discovered.

We would rather forgive the evil proliferating all around us than the rebellion against it, which we mistake for the true evil.

We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God's side.

Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion. As we learn to know and appreciate those of various cultures, we come to appreciate them.

If anyone wanted ter find out some stuff, all they’d have ter do would be ter follow the spiders. That’d lead ‘em right! That’s all I’m sayin’.

While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins.

The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.