A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.

The person whose face is between your legs is gonna get lockjaw.

The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.

I don’t know the right number of immigrants to let in.

Every major food company now has an organic division. There’s more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.

I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting older, just keep your orgasms in place, eat a lot of vegetables, take...

When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It’s like time travel...

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

President Bush has been careful in his statements specifically about Iraq to emphasize that we are on a long, winding and sometimes deadly road.

My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.

The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items.

I build quantum computers that store information on individual atoms and then massage the normal interactions between the atoms to make them compute.

Something else has happened with computers.

You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

Masturbation is our first and natural form of sexual activity and if that’s inhibited or damaged, then we suffer for the rest of our lives.

All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.

The majority is still at the General’s disposal.

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

So if the euro, if Euroland is to become a reserve center, if the euro is to become a reserve currency, Euroland will have to have a deficit in its overall balance of payments.

A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.

We all have our individual romantic or idealistic ideas. To get information that masturbation is our basic form of sex is hard, because who wants to admit they’re masturbating?

If you like overheads, you’ll love PowerPoint.

I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.

Fairness forces you – even when you’re writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done – to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately...

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.

Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.

If things go wrong, don’t go with them.

I like to see oral sex and manual sex and intercourse as foreplay for my vibrator sex.

Humor is everywhere, in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.

I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.

Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities.

Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what’s on their hides when they go to slaughter, so...

There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don’t see that connection at all.

I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it’s capable of performing universal computation, but it’s plausible that it is.

The amount of information that can be stored by the ultimate laptop, 10 to the 31st bits, is much higher than the 10 to the 10th bits stored on current laptops.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they’ve got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

Men are hung up on breasts. They’re looking at the titty dinner. It’s pathetic.

It is a sin to be poor.

Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious.

When you choose your fields of labor go where nobody else is willing to go.

When the choice comes down to industrial organic or local, I opt for the local, because it supports much more than good agricultural practice.

The reserve currency role seems to add prestige to an area and some people in Europe have talked about the desirability of the euro becoming an international reserve currency.

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it’s a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.

There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.