“I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions, but to understand them”

“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”

“No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.”

“Everyone performs bad actions… A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.”

“A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference and a longer view and finds them incongruous. It dampens enthusiasm; it mocks hope; it pardons shortcomings; it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.”

“God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those deep mysteries of Life and Death where all our intellects have so lamentably failed.”

“Computers are not very smart. They don't understand human language, so we have to tell them what to do in a language that both humans and computers can understand.”

“Myrnin, drive carefully. Understand?"
"Of course."
He didn't.”

“The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain of it, is to lament over the necessary effect and cause of the greatest public prosperity.”

“Men will mock the signs of the end of the age by saying, 'These signs have always been around.' This will be because they fail to understand that God is not subject to the dimension of time”