Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things.

Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid.

There is so much blandness and grayness out there, people want to be able to say "it's mine." They want to customize their cars like they customize a jeans jacket.

The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.

Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.

Chaos has come to be associated with the study of anything complex, but, in fact, the mathematical techniques are directly applicable only to simple systems that appear to be complex.

the walking stick, like a burqa, conferred protective status...

It seems that God arranged the most humiliating circumstances possible for His entrance, as if to avoid any charge of favoritism.

You and I will have our forever.

Don't be fair, be engaged.

Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --

No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.

I work in celestial mechanics, but I am not interested in getting to the moon.

Who you think you are is only a thought.

I take it personal when people don't double me. It's against my religion not to double me. It upsets me. It makes me think they're saying to themselves I don't have it anymore.