We need a total renunciation of war. We must renounce war totally, because now we can destroy all life on earth.
Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers.
Getting an education at MIT is like taking a drink from a fire hose.
It is no longer a question of controlling a military-industrial complex, but rather, of keeping the United States from becoming a totally military culture.
When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to the plan that you defined since the beginning. So that's what we have tried to do - not to avoid the urgent responses but to continue the route that we had defined.
And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.
It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.
If the actions used in performing sleights are visible or even suspected by the onlooker, the whole illusion of magic is destroyed.