What are the important problems of your field?

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.

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

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

If Christians always seemed to be the most intelligent and the most righteous of men, I'd be a skeptic.

The beach is definitely where I feel most at home. It's my oxygen. I forget how much I need it sometimes when I'm away working.

It's just that different emotions and perceptions demand different frequencies and intensities.

Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor. He spoke with pompous exaggeration. Whether man were the best or the worst of created beings.

I ask for a stonger and more devoted voice... a voice for good, a voice for the gospel, a voice for God.

When the doctor told me I had cancer, I was scared.

Each person is a story that the Soul of the World wants to tell to itself.

So vast is that Being that there's enough room for every sensation to have its momentary play.

My love's more richer than my tongue.