“The easiest way to be inscrutable is to be completely straightforward and honest. Then no one will be able to figure out what you’re up to.”
“Stupidity is honest and straightforward.”
“There is no one right way. Just figure out what works for you!”
“The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect--but, nearly invariably, the stupidest. ”
“For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.”
“Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor.”