“You simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead and get with the program of a living world and the imagination. ”

“To live truly and effectively the idea of achievement must be given up. Put unsentimental piety first, turn your back on the world, and get on with it.”

“The Pataphysique is not dead. It lives on in the minds of certain men, even if they are not aware of it. It has gone into “occultation,” as we say, and will come back again one day.”

“I call this The Dictator Syndrome. You see suffering or danger, and in your imagination you see a government program eliminating it. But in the real world the program would operate as you expect only if you were an absolute dictator—having at your disposal all the government's power to compel everyone to do things your way.”

“And you are mine, and you will be mine. They
will not get you. - Eric from Dead and Gone”

“Business is globalizing so fast that it has led to the often quoted ‘clash of civilizations’. People simply have not had time to get to know and understand people of other cultures sufficiently to live and work in harmony.”

“That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.”

“Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.”

“A few programming is taking you away from mathematics; a lot will get you back in.”

“To lead the orchestra, you have to turn your back on the crowd.”