Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
The cooperative structure never encourages huge bureaucratic systems, for it knows that mammoth bureaucracies cannot be sensitive to the needs of people.
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
I don’t believe in taking right decisions. Take decisions and make them right.
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
Go to Heaven for the climate. Hell for the company.
I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?