There was no race - but to the extent that there was an arms competition, it was almost entirely on the Soviet side, first to catch up and then to surpass the Americans.

Risk-taking is the essence of innovation.

Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision.

Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use is much more likely to be small and limited than widespread and unconstrained.

I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment.

Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.

The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing.

Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.

A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.

Perhaps I lost sight of my dreams when I became an adult and resigned myself to acting the way adults were supposed to act.

My whole career - I have been really lucky.

Only when you dream it you can do it.

The man who tries to be funny is lost. To lose one's naturalness is always to lose the sympathy of your audience.

Doom 2 is just such a bigger, badder, better version of Doom

Theories are just disposable tools in the production of knowledge

The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.

He that serves God for Money, will serve the Devil for better Wages.

I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak.

The rule was "no autopsy, no foul".