When you see people who are really good at game shows the one common attribute is a cool head under pressure: an ability to perform as well in the studio surrounded by lights and noise as you do on your couch.

In the practical world of computing it is rather uncommon that a program once it performs correctly and satisfactorily remains unchanged forever.

A world community can exist only with world communication which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding a common tradition common ideas and common ideals.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

If you take different mythologies from different cultures the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

The only sense that is common in the long run is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

Men may change their climate but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind such as cars that won't start.

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

The common question that gets asked in business is 'why?' That's a good question but an equally valid question is 'why not?'