No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.

Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

Though we are trimming capital expenditures in 2002, we will continue to invest capital in the right places, namely our major growth drivers, ... It is critical that SBC continue to provide excellent customer service and invest smartly to grow our data, long-distance and wireless revenues.

Over the years I have come to believe that the intellectual either of the right, left or center, will never be able to accept that means are the only thing out there, and the goals are an ever receding chimera.

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.