There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.