“Nothing will behave in the logical way you have come to expect.”

“Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other?”

“Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.”

“Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.”

“you would have to give up all else, I alone would expect you to be your sole and exclusive standard”

“Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.”

“Some things are governed by common sense. Putting buttons on the front of a shirt is a matter of logic, since it would be very difficult to button them up at the side, and impossible if they were at the back. “Other things, however, become fixed because more and more people believe that’s the way they should be. I’ll give you two examples. Have you ever wondered why the keys on a typewriter are arranged in that particular order?”