Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs.

Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.

nothing can wear you out like caring about people

To deal with a 14-dimensional space, visualize a 3-D space and say 'fourteen' to yourself very loudly. Everyone does it.

I think we should think of AI as the intellectual equivalent of a backhoe. It will be much better than us at a lot of things.

They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.

In science, you can say things that seem crazy, but in the long run they can turn out to be right. We can get really good evidence, and in the end the community will come around.

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky

I refuse to say anything beyond five years because I don't think we can see much beyond five years.

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

Backhoes can save us a lot of digging. But of course, you can misuse it.

Everybody has to die. Why cry, when you have wings to fly!

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

Black is the hardest color in the world to get right-except for gray.

He that begins to live, begins to die.

I worry that humanity has been "advanced" to its present level of incompetency because evolution works on the Peter Principle.

All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.

Enlightenment is eliminating mental confusion, eliminating hatred, jealousy, mental toxins, cravings. That's very simple and straightforward. Whether you can do it or not is another matter.

I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.

Mr. Fitzgerald-I believe that is how he spells his name-seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.