“The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.”

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.

Education isn’t something you can finish.

Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women’s breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.

The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

I don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’

The intelligent man is never bored.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.

You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.

If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.

Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it

You little fool. You thought you could defeat the most powerful being on Earth.

He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.

Whether sage or fool, we must all struggle with life.

Only a fool never changes his mind.

Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.