Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.

Computers are like humans - they do everything except think.

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.

When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.

On this platform of peace, we can create a languageto translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

Decorate yourself with the beauty of love.

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker.

I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions.

You can achieve anything in politics provided that you let someone else take the credit.

As artists, you always want to push yourself. There's always new territory.