"When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves."

"Life's too short for chess."

"'A penny for your thoughts?' 'A dollar for your death.'"

"Statistics are like lampposts: they are good to lean on, but they don't shed much light."

"Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it."

"Once they were men. Now they are land crabs."

"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."

"Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake."

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."

"The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink."

"There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail."

"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is."