I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
I don't do drugs, I am drugs
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment
A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.