Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable only of doing things in which all the variables are controlled and predictable.

All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.

What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings...we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes.

The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.

If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 … you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods… that's where we're headed.

It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything.

Music is the voice of God traveling through ten-dimensional hyperspace.

What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.

Common sense has no place in Quantum Mechanics.

I believe we exist in a multiverse of universes.

We have the media, which is such a waste in the sense that you can actually feel your IQ get lower as you watch TV.

Rewriting is the crucible where books are born.

Too often we want to take stands to elevate us rather than elevate a cause.

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders."

After I won a match at a tournament I tried to repeat everything I did the day I won. Before my next match, I ate the same food, I went to the same restaurant etc. Sometimes it got very boring.

You should do what you have to do.

I don't have a cell phone. I am not a Luddite.

I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it.