"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."

"An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it."

"I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient."

"Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything."

"Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances."

"We think in generalities, but we live in detail."

"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."

"We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."

"Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage."

"When anger rises, think of the consequences."

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

"If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people."

"If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships."

"Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1 2 tons."

"An apprentice carpenter may want only a hammer and saw, but a master craftsman employs many precision tools. Computer programming likewise requires sophisticated tools to cope with the complexity of real applications, and only practice with these tools will build skill in their use."

"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."

"It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self-critical?"

"Feminism is the radical concept that women are people."