[Metaphors] replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.

My colleagues, they study artificial intelligence; me, I study natural stupidity.

Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.

It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.

She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

If it has a name or a description it has or will exist at some point in time

To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.

A street without trees is a street only for the sick-minded people whose god is nothing but money!

I've always wanted to be somebody but I see now I should have been more specific.

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

We are as much alive as we keep the Earth alive.

It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.” ~spoken by Augustus McCrae

If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.

Vegetables are something God invented to let women get even with their children.