dates chosen almost at random, imagined times, wishes - and the mentioned dates soon took on an air of reality. … Now there was no way back. The date existed and the software would be “late” - in relation to someone’s fantasy that is somehow adopted as real

I’d like to think that computers are neutral, a tool like any other… But there is something in the system itself, in the formal logic of programs and data, that recreates the world in its own image. the computer is not really like us. It is a projection of a very slim part of ourselves: that portion devoted to logic, order, rule and clarity. We place this small projection of ourselves all around us, and we make ourselves reliant on it. the more we surround ourselves with a narrowed notion of existence, the more narrow existence becomes. We conform to the range of motion the system allows. We must be more orderly, more logical. Answer the question, Yes or No, OK or Cancel. We think we are creating the system, but the system is also creating us. We build the system, we live in its midst, and we are changed.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method

People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations

tis a very great Fault to regard rather who it is that Speaks, than what is Spoken; and … to submit to Authority, when we should only yield to Reason.

People by being forbid are only excited to a more curious enquiry.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements

Columbus was happy not when he had discovered America but when he was discovering it.

Why is man alone subject to becoming an imbecile?