You Don't Understand Anything Until You Learn

It's Ridiculous To Live 100 Years And Only Be Able To Remember 30 Million Bytes. You Know, Less Than A Compact Disc. The Human Condition Is Really Becoming More Obsolete Every Minute.

Societies Need Rules That Make No Sense For Individuals. For Example, It Makes No Difference Whether A Single Car Drives On The Left Or On The Right. But It Makes All The Difference When There Are Many Cars!

Anyone Could Learn Lisp In One Day, Except That If They Already Knew Fortran, It Would Take Three Days.

Each Part Of The Mind Sees Only A Little Of What Happens In Some Others, And That Little Is Swiftly Refined, Reformulated And "represented." We Like To Believe That These Fragments Have Meanings In Themselves - Apart From The Great Webs Of Structure From Which They Emerge - And Indeed This Illusion Is Valuable To Us Qua Thinkers - But Not To Us As Psychologists - Because It Leads Us To Think That Expressible Knowledge Is The First Thing To Study.

We Rarely Recognize How Wonderful It Is That A Person Can Traverse An Entire Lifetime Without Making A Single Really Serious Mistake — Like Putting A Fork In One's Eye Or Using A Window Instead Of A Door.