“She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.”

“A woman can tolerate delays knowing they are not denials; she is diligent, and composed. She is not easily irritated like love; she endures all things, beans all things and can be stretched to any limit.”

“She can endure pain and loss without any trouble, but she doesn't know how to react facing happiness.”

“All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.”

“Enduring pain is like causing pain.”

“The I.B.M. machine has no ethic of its own; what it does is enable one or two people to do the computing work that formerly required many more people. If people often use it stupidly, it's their stupidity, not the machine's, and a return to the abacus would not exorcise the failing. People can be treated as drudges just as effectively without modern machines.”