The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.

Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive

Being personally acquainted with a number of Waldorf students, I can say that they come closer to realizing their own potential than practically anyone I know.

Science promised man power. But, as so often happens when people are seduced by promises of power, the price is servitude and impotence. Power is nothing if it is not the power to choose.

We didn't make ourselves, " she says. "We aren't the greatest things to exist. I can't believe that. I won't believe that. We have too many faults.

You know, without a doubt, that surrender is the only option to fulfill whatever you are attempting.

Work to me has become kind of a hobby. I was a part of something that gave me financial independence and the rent is paid. Now it's just about projects that turn me on.

The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.

Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book.

Humankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.

No aspect of our contemporary lives has been untouched by women's work.

I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.

Knowledge does have a way of making you an outcast.

. . . for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.