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 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.

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

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.

Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.

In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.

Amy Sedaris makes me laugh harder than anybody.

Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy down here today.

If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.

Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. It modifies the disposition of both the parties who partake in it.

When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.

The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish.

The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.