Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are.

As an anonymous wit is supposed to have put it: "Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas which, given enough time, changes into people.

We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.

Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.

Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen.

Tape allows for a clean sweep of data that simply doesn't need to be on any form of disk but still needs to be kept. The cost and capacity of tape makes these 'just in case' copies very affordable.

Hee that loves the tree, loves the branch.

It is very important to have a widespread curiosity about life.

A man's got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.

Who will ever give counsel, if the counsel be judged by the event, and if it be not found wise, shall therefore be thought wicked?

I just want to get on stage and sing and be happy.

The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.