Quotes About Insight

There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves

I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw

What did they know about you? I know you.

It was awful for a man to know what women really thought about and talked about. It made a girl feel positively undressed.

Looking closer can make something beautiful

Humans do not engage in activities that are meaningless. If you think you see people doing things you find meaningless, look again and try to understand what the activities mean for them.

I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.

Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.

Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.

The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.

Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.

When teaching a rapidly changing technology, perspective is more important than content.

There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.

Science should be on tap, not on top.

Listen to the technology; find out what it's telling you.

I am going to take one day a month to visit non-technology companies to learn and get inspiration from other industries and organizations.

The thing that excites me about these informational technologies is I think we are going to be able to use virtual reality to show each other the insides of our own heads.

[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.

So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us.