“[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.”

“There is so much stupid information, misinformation around. You can’t really get anywhere until you get out from under all that.”

“No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!”

“We all need someone or a helping hand in times of need.”

“[T]o teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.”

“We all would like to know more and, at the same time, to receive less information. In fact, the problem of a worker in today's knowledge industry is not the scarcity of information but its excess. The same holds for professionals: just think of a physician or an executive, constantly bombarded by information that is at best irrelevant. In order to learn anything we need time. And to make time we must use information filters allowing us to ignore most of the information aimed at us. We must ignore much to learn a little.”

“If what you've done is stupid, but it works.. then it really isn't all that stupid.”

“We keep acting without thinking and you think the solution is to do it one more time. You have allied yourself with stupid, violent men, and you are trying to convince yourself that being stupid and violent will work. That makes you stupid too. I will never help you. I’ll fight you now.”

“People really need help but may attack you if you help them. Help people anyway!”

“The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.”