Sydney J. Harris
  • The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

  • The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

  • The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

  • Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

  • Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.