I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Study men, not historians.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

If you look at ‚Blade Runner,‘ it’s been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

I don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

The majority of people who don’t have Internet, don’t have the Internet because they don’t know why they want to use the Internet.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

A witty saying proves nothing.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

I’ve been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

But if you – if what – the reports are true, what they’re saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that’s going to increase our costs, we knew that.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

As a Western, ‚The Magnificent Seven‘ was a pretty good film. I don’t think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as ‚Seven Samurai.‘

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.