We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

There aren't bad ideas but yes bad thoughts

To decipher pure theory into intellectual practice is education.

Writers . . . write to give reality to experience.

I was the guy on the swim team entertaining the bus on the way to the meets.

When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

Much of anyone's game is played (or should be played) in the short six-inch course between the ears.

Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep their balance in both the ordinary and the non-ordinary worlds.

Like most people in Academia, my vision of the future is the same as the average industry person's vision of five years ago.

My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little bit and have a normal relationship with my family.

I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.