Mark Helprin Quote

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

The intelligence we will create from the reverse-engineering of the brain will have access to its own source code and will be able to rapidly improve itself in an accelerating iterative design cycle....

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father l...

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point...

Angry is always hungry to cook guilty.

There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on.

A bird that fears turbulence will never know how high it can fly.

Before you're given what you want, you'll first be tested with what you don't really want.