I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world.

For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions – both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it...

A worker’s paradise is a consumer’s hell.

In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party.

I’m sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal of room to grow and prosper.

For my own personal growth I had to set out on my own.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

In the first Spider-Man, at the end of the movie, Peter Parker had to deny himself a relationship with a girl that he’s in love with. The very next thing that happens is that he’s...

People rarely write books that are that far out, so it might be interesting to try to write one, but no one will want to read it.

I like the Raiders. That’s my favorite team.

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion.

I’ve seen disgusting excess in business, and I’ve seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I’ve certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can’t ignore it, especially when you get into...

We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an individual; but we are interested in the diversity of these traits in groups of men found in different geographical areas...

They were the largest semiconductor maker in the world up until about 1980. I’m not sure that that can be re-gained again, but their progress in the last few years has been very impressive.

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.

A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.

We’re stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender.

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I’m very skeptical.

A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security.

To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program, their cost would be well within the resources available to...

It was in 1969 that I was able to give up my administrative responsibility. As I worked hard my research never suffered during this period and as a matter of fact these were probably some...

The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.

It is not easy to be a pioneer – but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.

From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth’s ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age – but there is no suggestion that...

And the Russians certainly don’t have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she’s a crook. And that’s me, the nice American. The assumption that you can’t make money...

In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past.

It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.

Gutenberg and Richter were very great men.

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs.

It’s an embarrassment of riches because you have directors who don’t better. You end up with so much stuff going on the screen that you don’t know where to look, and that’s what I consider...

Physical laws provide, at best, a recipe for how the world might be computed in parallel particle by particle and region by region.

Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try to go out there and create my own image, my own style, my own type...

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should.

My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use is much more likely to be small and limited than widespread and unconstrained.

In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don’t get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded.

I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.

They’re very strong in memory. Didn’t do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.