Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking names for things.
Hebrews. This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable.
No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is.
Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.
A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only proceed from the publick. The publick, then, is to be watched, in this country, as, in other countries kings and aristocrats are to be watched.
If print was invented tomorrow, it would be the death of digital.
The Depression taught me what frugality means and the importance of not losing money.
Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.
We are working on creating self-describing, self-organizing, self-diagnosing and self-repairing networks.