The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.

Welcome...to Jurassic Park!

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.

Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

Social control is best managed through fear.

With self-courage, self-confidence and self-will, you will master the act.

Military service is not just a vocation. It is a way of life, an attitude that you carry in your heart even after you are discharged.

Happiness is not about the trophy, or the finish line. It's the journey. If you enjoy your journey, you can enjoy your life

Lent comes providentially to reawaken us, to shake us from our lethargy.

Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?

America’s true power lies not in its will to dominate but in its ability to inspire.

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.

The cost of getting an early hire wrong is really high.

When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.

The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read for a new show.