A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it.

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.

I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.

Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.

A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.

Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.

Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly.

The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes.

Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way

Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide.

What does that quote mean to you? Can you explain the concept behind it and not just repeat the pretty phrase to me?

I think of you now mare than ever. It's raining today.

Humor is not the opposite of seriousness. Humor is the opposite of despair.

I didn't think it was going to be this fun. But everything just gets heightened when you have a baby. The volume gets turned up on life. I never knew I could be this happy, and that's the truth.

My slogan is who needs fitness when you've got great equipment.

Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.

I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed by these bodies extends to the power of vision.

I may not be Meryl Streep, but I am not untalented.

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.

Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.