Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

There are wavelengths that people cannot see, there are sounds that people cannot hear, and maybe computers have thoughts that people cannot think.

If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work.

Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants." These days we stand on each other's feet!

The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you’re doing.

Typing is no substitute for thinking.

Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.

True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter.

You can tell other people all the alibis you want. I don't mind. But to yourself try to be honest.

Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about physical processes.

The first thing the therapist asked me was, 'Are you here because you're depressed?' I said, 'Not at all--I'm here because I'm Southern.'" Anne Herndon

When we get a chance to take part in elections, I am ready to fight for leading positions, including in the presidential vote.

The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.

Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.

Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice of the enemy.

Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.

What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.

I've always approached spring training as I have something to prove.

In search of my Love I will go over mountains and strands; I will gather no flowers, I will fear no wild beasts; And pass by the mighty and the frontiers.

Fame gets you in the door but it doesn't keep you in the room.