"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
"Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance."
"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."
"John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war."
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."
"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."
"It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics."