Machines can only find what ignorant men have programmed them to find.

Anybody can find infinite Mandelbrot figures in his navel.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?

The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill people who won't do what it wants.

A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die.

Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.

A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.

He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.

If we knew exactly what to expect throughout the Solar System, we would have no reason to explore it.

What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for.

The three rules to writing a novel1) Write2) Write more3) Keep writing

Aim towards enemy." - instructions on U.S. rocket launcher

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.

I feel most at home when I'm alone. That's not sad. It's just I feel closest to source and connection when I'm by myself.

Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.

Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?

I think there are pieces of the film [Age Of Trump] that are even more emotionally resonant and more vital to talk about than ever.

I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream

To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.