“The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point i...”

“Youve got to think about big things while youre doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.”

“The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.”

“You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.”

“We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots religion, nation, community, family, or profession are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust.”

“Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.”

“Some of the greatest journeys of humankind are those that, at the time being, only the one living it understands.”

“The greatest success is how much impact was made”

“The greatest policy is where there are no policies!”

“Become 'tested' in such a way that not a single word in this world can shake you up.”

“Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.”

“Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.”