Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well maybe once.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

People think of education as something that they can finish.

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

What I stand for is what I stand on.

We are all broken in some way. But it’s all the shattered pieces that give us depth. Like stained glass, it’s how the pieces and colors fit together that truly makes us beautiful.

Love goes through different stages. But it endures.

Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

If there's a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are going well, I hate to quit. And then I'll work 'till exhausted.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.

If I can't really find a way to live with myself, I can't expect anyone else to live with me.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Find a need and fill it, find a hurt and heal it.