Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers
