The essential idea is that the quality of the result is continually at risk during the process of making.

Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.

Function is a fantasy...the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything whatever.

You are the conductor of your own attitude! Nobody else can compose your thoughts for you.

I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.

More people are aware of the consequences of hatred. People are aware. Therefore more people are engaged in fighting ... racism and so forth.

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.

[Mark] Twain called Congress "the only distinctly native criminal class in America. We've lately sent a United States Senator to the penitentiary." That was a fact.

For the Lord hath in no place forbidden mirth.

You have to give in to what the paint says... You have to do what it's telling you to do.

Beadle believed that genetics were inseparable from chemistry-more precisely, biochemistry. They were, he said, "two doors leading to the same room."

a wild dedication of yourselves To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores.