The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won’t be able to tell the carrots from the onions.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Every clarification breeds new questions.

Every solution breeds new problems.

Don't force it... get a bigger hammer.

Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

First Rule of Acting: Whatever happens, look as if it were intended.

If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.

If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.

Think of this as the highest paying job you never applied for.

I do not preach doubtingly, for I do not live doubtingly.

I thought it was quite wonderful coming to America. I think immigration is a very difficult thing, but America is a very wonderful place.

I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by myself, playing games by myself.

When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

The true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not legislation, but regeneration.

The word "prodigy" was thrown around a lot, but I didn't understand what that meant, or the weight of it. It didn't really mean anything to me, until I was older and could look back on it.

The great secret of morals is Love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own.

I love 'Shattered Glass.' It's one of my favorite movies. I think it's just brilliant.