He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

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.

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.

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.

Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth. None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.

Yo, yo, yo, check it out," said PJ, with enough hand gestures that any deaf person watching would have thought he had ASL Tourette's syndrome

the 'finely polished word' of Hans Fritzsche was as effective as the surgeon's knife in cutting through the putrefying tissue of lies and laying bare the truth.

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.

Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands from us this double allegiance.

How'd it feel?" Rube asked himself. "I don't know exactly, but it made me want to howl.

Electronic man has no physical body.

I am a fan of the compositions of The Beatles, but I don't care for their interpretation of them. But as compositions, I just think that some of them are brilliant and have become standards.

Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.