I'm not a big fan of journalism schools, except those that are organized around a liberal arts education. Have an understanding of history, economics and political science - and then learn to write.

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.

My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.