The best single question for testing an organization's character is: What happens when people make mistakes?

Creativity isn't about wild talent as much as it's about productivity. To find new ideas that work, you need to try a lot that don't. It's a pure numbers game.

It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.

Trust your instinct in areas you have some background because your instinct is informed and not blind. - L. R. W. Lee

The fair request ought to be followed by the deed in silence.

They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.

The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.

On Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this makes me believe its utter improbablity.

Almost all human who can form a sentence will eventually let you in on the fact that their lives are very difficult and sometimes very hard to manage.

I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine!

I would rather label the whole enterprise of setting a biological value upon groups for what it is: irrelevant, intellectually unsound, and highly injurious.

Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension.