We still have books because they are so brilliantly suited to the way human beings absorb information and at their best, they are among the most beautiful things we have.

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.

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

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.

Measure thy life by loss instead of gain Not by the wine drunk but by the wine poured forth.

If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.

When you realize your own magnificence, you will only attract magnificence into your life.

Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools.

I believe we should make use of what we know. We know that the future of the Earth must not be compromised.

I drink Vitamin Water nonstop - I should have an IV.

I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.

Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted.

I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate

Don't try to start a career in LA, unless money is all you're interested in.