True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter.

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.

There are wavelengths that people cannot see, there are sounds that people cannot hear, and maybe computers have thoughts that people cannot think.

If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work.

Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants." These days we stand on each other's feet!

The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you’re doing.

Typing is no substitute for thinking.

Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.

You can tell other people all the alibis you want. I don't mind. But to yourself try to be honest.

Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about physical processes.

Peter preached about [the blood]. Paul wrote about it, and the redeemed in heaven sing about it. In a sense, the New Testament is the Book of the Blood.

Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant.

One of the worst things sin did for man was to make him selfish, for selfishness cannot love.

Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.

I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff

I work with the dead, but I am working for the living.

The secret of the gospel is that we actually do more when we hear less about all we need to do for God and hear more about all that God has already done for us.

The men may be the head of the house, but the women are the neck and they can turn the head any way they want.

The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.

If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.