“He was in that familiar state - not that the occasion mattered to seriously to him -- of incoherent ideas spreading outward without a center, so characteristic of the present, and whose strange arithmetic adds up to a random proliferation of numbers without forming a unit.”

“There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.”

“There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are just arithmetic. Without the empty chord, music is just noise.”

“[...] a number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit.”

“Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.”

“Without aesthetic, design is either the humdrum repetition of familiar clichés or a wild scramblefor novelty. Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producingeffects without substance. Form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form.”