Never memorize something that you can look up.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them.

be careful not to become narrow-minded, or afraid of reading what is well written, quite the contrary, such writings are a source of comfort in life.

In these days when anything goes in literature, movies, and even TV, to think there are some places so isolated, so backward, so ill-informed as to what's going on in the world

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.

If you think you're a really good programmer... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing.

Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.

I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul under the ribs of death.

The birth of science was the death of superstition.

You have to learn to ask questions in a way that will elicit more nuanced answers, rather than the answers you would like to get.