“…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.”

A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.

General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

It’s never too late for those whose time has come.

I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.

If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.

Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.

Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.

Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.

You can make a fresh start with your final breath.

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.

For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.

This is a software-powered world.

Is it possible that software is not like anything else.

In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

It’s harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology.