I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.

In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.

In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.

I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.

In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.

I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.

I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion.

I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.

I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.

The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business.

Two days after my dad's funeral, my mom went on a mission. I never understood it until then--that sometimes a spy doesn't need a cover so much as she needs a shield.

The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.

The fundamental driver in computer security, in all of the computer industry, is economics. That requires a lot of re-education for us security geeks.

Christians in community must again show the world, not merely family values, but the bond of the love of Christ.

By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Let us show great humility towards the peoples we wish to help, for we have very little to teach them.

I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.

But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.

Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive.