What you learn from others you can use to follow. What you learn for yourself you can use to lead.

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.

Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

If you have a question about anything, the answer can be found in a book somewhere in the library.

I was a mother's boy.

The last few months of George Bush's presidency brought Obama and nobody can be happy about that.

If you think back , the Academy was doing a better job. Think about how many more African Americans were nominated.We need to get better at this. We used to be better at it.

Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.

We go up to the high places not to see what is up there but to see how the lower places look from the top!

Part of life is learning what to be ashamed of and what to be proud of.