“I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.”

“A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.”

“He had the neurotic's partial vision of life, and a sense of the absurdity which adheres to all effort when observed in the light of a long enough perspective. This had never made him popular.”

“I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”

“Life on earth is hand-to-hand mortal combat . . . between the law of love and the law of hate.”

“Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete?”