There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else — but persistent.

There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else - but persistent.

I don't believe in ONE holy book. I believe all books are holy. Of course, some books are holy shit.

Donald Trump is worse than any horror story I've written.

I am convinced that we must train not only the head but the heart and hand as well.

Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will explain them. They are the final, the nth whoopee of sight.

Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.

I don't like travelling if I know I have to write about it.

As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options

All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.

There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.

If the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled workers trained in the technique of their craft, nothing could be done with them if they had no ideal.