Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.