Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Computers are like humans - they do everything except think.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.

When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.

Every one of us must learn how to make our time productive.

Change can only work in two ways – for the better, or for the worst. Yet, regardless of whatever manner in which change comes into our lives, what matters is how we view it and how we react to it.

The moment we begin to define others and ourselves by how we are different, the seeds of separation are planted.

You’re not really grown until you’ve lost your heroes.

As a kid, I would wake up, and there'd be a jazz funeral while I'm walking to school. And when I come home, you can find Rebirth band playing for a birthday party the same day.

For just a few dollars registration, you got temporary possession of a good piece of land. Live on it for five years, build a house, and farm it, and it was yours. What a brilliant economic stimulus!

The devil is not abroad at night in the form of a cat or a wolf or any other animal. He lives eternally in the hearts of men.

Art should create an experience.

You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.

Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.