So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.

If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

I'd found him, and he was mine - cute little bugger that he was, messed up glasses, funky shoes and all.

The world which worships Mother Mary and goddess Durga also has experienced such heinous crimes against her daughters.

I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the legacy that was important.

Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter.

Security is a process, not a product.

People think I'm a freemason, and I'm not. People think I believe the end of the world is coming on 21 December 2012, and I don't.

Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality, buy organic, buy natural, go to the farmers market. Immediately that's going to increase the quality of the food you make.

I'd wanted to be an actor from the age of five.

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter.