“Humor is not an end in itself, but a tool to understanding. A dense head must be tickled with an ax.”
“...one must come to the understanding in the end that one was always insufficiently practiced, and yet one must sometimes act anyway. Practice itself was an act.”
“They had applied their doubts to the very head that had introduced doubt as a tool for advancing knowledge. And in the end they gave the head a nod.”
“Design must be an innovative, highly creative, cross-disciplinary tool responsive to the needs of men. It must be more research-oriented, and we must stop defiling the earth itself with poorly-designed objects and structures.”
“Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humor in Heaven.”
“Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.”