Every problem that is interesting is also soluble.

Quantum computation is a distinctively new way of harnessing nature. It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.

Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.

It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense...

Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by nothing else in the universe.

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.

No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance.

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.

If we can't program it, we can't understand it.

Your lack of confidence is the number one reason why you’re not experiencing success.

Sometimes I'll say, "When Sandy Bullock and I were doing Speed - the movie, not the drug." Just in case someone's listening.

To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."

Once you get hooked on the airline business, it's worse than dope.

Nine times out of 10, the most charming thing to say in any given situation will be the exact opposite of what one really feels.

You are as good as the people you dress.

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was

People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.

Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite.