I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

The sea is everything....

It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. 

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.