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

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.

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.

There is nothing more uplifting than love, except love with kindness.

I want to kiss you so thoroughly that you lose your ability to stand.

An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.

If there's one thing I'm good at, it's putting people in their place.

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

I've always maintained that there is a very fine line between a daring, sexy older woman and mutton dressed as lamb.

What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.

Don't let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole.

The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.

Sometimes we need help from a god