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“The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.”
Source : Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals", 1976.
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“As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.”
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“Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked askance at this strange habit of mathematicians, which has changed little from Pythagoras to our day.”
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“The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.”
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“I thought that, given the system of rewards central to our economic system, in which profit maximization is valued above all else and specifically above life, it is probably just as irresistible to the owners of capital (human or otherwise) to exploit workers (and the land): "Nothing personal," they say as they load their property onto the ship bound for the Middle Passage, "but a man's gotta turn a dime.”
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“A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.”
Source : "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com. 
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“For, how else to seize such an instant? How to shout out into the empty air just the right words, and on cue? Frame a moment to last a lifetime?”
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“I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did.”
Source : Jimmy Carl Black Interview by Stephen Moore in Munich, Germany, www.stevemoorebooks.com. March 29, 2000.
