It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

The human condition today is better than it’s ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

One presidential advisor to another: “If the world made sense, we’d all have to find honest work.

I’ve made up stuff that’s turned out to be real, that’s the spooky part.

Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn’t know.

Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.

People in the intelligence community are not made to believe in coincidences.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it’s not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

He had to grow his own NCOs.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius.

It wasn’t an epidemic yet because no one knew about it.

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

Diplomacy “was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

A commander’s pride got his soldiers dead.

What do I know about sex? I’m a married man

They loved their country largely because they controlled it.

How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.

One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew high enough you could always find the sun.

What do I know about sex? I’m a married man.

There is no seamen in the world who prefers a slow ship to a fast one. The painters painted better, the cooks took a little more time with the meals, and the technicians tightened the...

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job.

The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.

It’s not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.