If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them. – Ralph Merkle
The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government – from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration – could fill committee agendas for years. – Tom Coburn
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax. – Alfred Kazin, Think, February 1963
