The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.
I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.
It's hard to leave behind scenes and characters I am in love with.
I'm actually, for the most part, a complete agnostic politically.
We know a lot of things, but what we don't know is a lot more.
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.
I had planned to accomplish something considerable, and this is the end.
Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years.
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think its forever.
I don't believe anyone wants to hear what I have to say.
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups.
