It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Computers are like humans - they do everything except think.

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.

The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

Much of our existence is to deal with steep problems and slippery solutions

Overall, always strive to be genuine — about who you are, what you offer, and why you do what you do.

If the Good Lord had intended us to crawl, he'd have given us a hundred legs and an exosqueleton.

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.

Education is not a tool for development - individual, community and the nation. It is the foundation for our future. It is empowerment to make choices and emboldens the youth to chase their dreams.

Any religion is a perspective upon existence.

I believe I owe all the best parts of my adulthood to embracing my imperfections and showcasing them.

Joe Henderson with Ron Carter and Al Foster at the Vanguard was just wow. And the energy of the three of them.

Without cavalry, battles are without result.