Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Life is consciousness.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.