Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards.
In a world full of people, only some want to fly. Isn't that crazy?
What I love most about fatherhood is the opportunity to be a part of the development process of a new life.
We're never gonna survive unless we go a little crazy.
Everything really is beautiful if you choose to see it that way.
My theory is that humans aren't really bad; we all do bad things, but being bad is not our natural state. You're acting out of fear, lack of understanding, compassion, but essentially communication. Human beings are made of love, an overwhelming desire to love. When we communicate, we exist in our natural state.
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.
Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the scholars wondered, of 22 Arab states, covering nearly 300 million people? Their conclusion? Of all world regions, the Arab countries scored the lowest in freedom, media independence, civil liberties, political process and political rights.
What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family.