“Sometimes," Halt continued, "we tend to expect a little too much of Ranger horses. After all, they are only human.”

“Being born in New York City, tends to lead to big expectations, expectations that I only started to realize after I had left.”

“Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.”

“Automatic design has the computer do too much and the human do too little, whereas automatic programming has the human do too much and the computer do too little. Both techniques are important, but are not representative for what we wish to mean by computer-aided design.”

“We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.”

““Perhaps I was expecting too much.”
“Perhaps. We’re all waiting as fast as we can.””

“We all try to forget what hurts us, it is sometimes the only way we can continue.”

“The right, uplifted foreleg of the horse
Suggested that, at the final funeral,
The music halted and the horse stood still.”

“I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin?”

“Remember no one expects you to be Halt. He's a legend, after all. Haven't you heard? He's eight feet tall and kills bears with his bare hands…”