“A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.”

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It’s a question of what’s to be done from now on.

It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It’s a question of what’s to be done from now on.

A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It’s a question of what’s to be done from now on.

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.

A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.

A person’s genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.

A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

The best Paris I know now is in my head.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.

It can bend and twist and stretch, and probably the best way to think about space is to just kind of imagine a big piece of rubber that you can pull and twist and bend.

I played against the Brazilians in ’82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.

You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.