Computers are like humans - they do everything except think.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.

When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

The war had changed him, inside and out, in ways he could never have fathomed.

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.

I wanted to make feminism more accessible. And I really wanted to engage with my own generation, one that is increasingly speaking in an audio/video multimedia language.

It's true that I have not been able to completely close Guantanamo, but we've drastically reduced the population from 700 or so to around 60 now.

We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.

The challenge is for the graphic designer to turn data into information and information into messages of meaning.

As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.

Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

How can you eat anything with eyes?