When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Every clarification breeds new questions.

The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won’t be able to tell the carrots from the onions.

Every solution breeds new problems.

Don't force it... get a bigger hammer.

Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

First Rule of Acting: Whatever happens, look as if it were intended.

If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.

I'm convinced that not all units of time are equal.

Don’t try to control yourself, just learn to monitor your thoughts.

Is the love you have for me, and the feelings I have for you forever parallel, with no chance of intersecting?

You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.

Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time.

The fact that equities are being sold down, despite the lowest interest rates in recent history, simply means that the market doesn't see growth ahead for -very many businesses.

My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.

One thing I did not want to change, even if we got serious, work had to be enjoyable on a daily basis. We all had to come to work on the balls of our feet and go up the stairs two at a time.