Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

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

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

All art is quite useless.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as ‚failed states.‘

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice.

I do understand it’s not easy to run an I-league club. I have been part of many and I know the scene.

I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I’m stating facts.

I don’t concern myself with award. I’d been to the party enough times to know it really didn’t matter.

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

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

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

It was always a plan that we were going to have a retail side with what were doing musically, like an Apple store or Nike Town. I wanted something where you can come get everything – ‚Marathon‘ or ‚All Money‘ or ‚Crenshaw‘ – and make it like an experience. Especially with what Crenshaw and Slauson meant to my story.

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

How well he’s read, to reason against reading!

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

I did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp, went to SEAL training, got done with that, and then showed up at a SEAL team, where I did 20 years. That was pretty much my whole adult life.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

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

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

When hiring somebody, I never ask to see a curriculum vitae. I feel that since I didn’t have one myself, it would be a bit presumptuous to ask to see anyone else’s.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.