The choices we make lead up to actual experiences. It is one thing to decide to climb a mountain. It is quite another to be on top of it.

Like Humpty Dumpty, we can make words mean anything we want them to mean.

The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.

In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.

One finds limits by pushing them.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.