There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.

I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.

We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.

Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets.

I think that intellectuals who end up in hell will have to read page proofs and check indexes there.

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

Doggedness in art is no substitute for inspiration.

The best way to worship God is to honor His people

It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.

Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism.

I'm the number 1 target of the White House. They can't get Osama bin Laden; they're going to get me.

When you want to be a designer today, you are in a subversion.

Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America.

Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process.

I think good art does come from a dark place.

I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead.