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.

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.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

I am loving. I am forgiving.I am at peace.

The sweetest flower that blows I give you as we part. For you it is a rose For me it is my heart.

Zeal should not outrun discretion.

Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday and would I have got married during the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves.

Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!'

People are moving faster - you can see that in the streets. Partly that's because of the electronic devices, which encourage this.

One has to wait without impatience for what should come, and yet at the same time do everything within one's power as though one were impatient and as though one were solely responsible.

The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion.