Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

You keep taking note of whatever confirms your ideas — better to write down what refutes and weakens them!

Wenn man Bücher bei sich trug, waren Handgreiflichkeiten zu vermeiden. Er trug immer Bücher bei sich.

Quando si viaggia, si prende tutto come viene, lo sdegno rimane a casa. Si osserva, si ascolta, ci si entusiasma per le cose più atroci solo perché sono nuove. I buoni viaggiatori sono gente senza cuore.

It was becoming increasingly important for these young missionaries to know every available fact about the Aucas. They read the reports of the Shell Oil Company and talked to anyone who had ever had any contact with the Aucas.

I grew up in suburban New York, and my family wasn't much on traveling, so when I arrived at my alma mater, The Colorado College, I'd never been out West before, seen a 14,000-foot mountain, experienced snow in 70-degree weather, or come into contact with something called a 'dude.'

I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.

I certainly don't read coverage of me, I read what else is going on that I need to know about to do my job.

Something happens to our creativity as we go through the education process; most of us lose touch with it.

The serendipitous nature of hypertext links is just brilliant for a curious mind. I love it.

Closed systems run down and get more chaotic over time. Always get better by being 'open' to outside energy and templates of better ways to function.