"Medieval man was a cog in a wheel he did not understand; modern man is a cog in a complicated system he thinks he understands."

"You want to be the fire and wish for the wind."

"Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet."

"The function of the university is to make the student fall in love with the library."

"The problem with modernity is that we are building a world we don’t understand."