The machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Every uniform corrupts one's character.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.

We asked for workers. We got people instead.

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

There is no art without Eros.

When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.

I have no words for my reality.

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

All Egyptians, not only the protestors, have broken through the fear barrier, therefore I expect only one outcome - protests will continue until Mubarak steps down from power.

Experience through freedom is the only means to arrive at the truth and the best solutions; and there is no freedom if there is not the freedom to be wrong.

If we go down in flames, we will be laughing on the way down, believe me.

Opportunities present themselves to me. That's how my whole life has been pretty much. I've been lucky.

One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.

I am definitely a worrier.

The heart is your student, for love is the only way we learn.

I've got the best job in the world, and i meet some of the most amazing human beings on the planet. I'm one lucky guy.