For a long time a very strong and deep attraction has drawn me to missionary life.
Hard sciences are successful because they deal with the soft problems; soft sciences are struggling because they deal with the hard problems.
Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.
Act always so as to increase the number of choices
If you desire to see, learn how to act.
Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him
Cybernetics is NOT the banana.
When I need to stretch my legs, I can walk across the street to the museum and relax among the illustrations of Abraham Lincoln's life, too. In a way, it reflects the halves of Lincoln's own character - one all jokes and buffoonery, the other all high-minded seriousness. If he could absorb both into his personality, I think I can, too.
In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness.
The indiscreet questioner - and by indiscreet questions I mean questions which it is not conceivably a man's duty either to the community or to any individual to answer - is a marauder, and there is every excuse for treating him as such.
It is much easier to be flexible about where a story begins than it ever was for me to change my mind about where and how a story ended.