“I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom.”

“Schools are intended to produce, through the application of formulas, formulaic human beings whose behavior can be predicted and controlled.”

“In human affairs, all that endures is what men think.”

“You merely had an affair with me, to be exact, and therefore no right to prevent me from another affair.”

“If a concept lacks an essence, nothing will ever be found that completely fits that concept. If you are lacking in the concept of human being, it will immediately expose that you are something individual, something that cannot be expressed by the term human being, thus, in every instance, an individual human being.”

“The retrieval process begins when a lack of information shows itself in a human mind and the decision is taken to find out if this information has been discovered and published”

“I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs.”

“In fact, maybe Metcalfe's Law is the formula for Doug Engelbart's scaling of human knowledge, just as Watt'ssteam engine scaled human power.”

“If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.”

“To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.”