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

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.

Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about physical processes.

Successful individuals desire things, and then get busy turning them into realities, while a lot of unsuccessful people wish from things, but then spend the rest of their lives wishing for them.

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.

I'm known for playing bad guys, so this was an interesting departure from what I'm known to play, which is a softer, more likable, affable character.

Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states.

The real love for somebody comes from getting to know them very well.

You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

We are determined to listen to nothing from the illegal congress.

I'm scared of haunted things, like hearing noises in my house and stuff. That scares me.

I've never done songs with people just for the sake of the great combination. I've always done songs with friends.

Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.