By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers.

Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.

For their discovery of the antiproton.

Because I come from that old-school optics environment, I know stuff about depth of field and camera movement and things that are not necessarily a part of the curriculum for people who started on a...

If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it’s quite abundantly clear that there’s not going to be a final answer and there won’t be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation...

We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and...

I’m an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything.

I am against the whole cliche of the moment.

I became a real free market fanatic. I’m probably less so now than even two or three years ago.

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.

My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue.

It was a marriage of convenience. Everybody recognized it as that, but we didn’t think it was an extraordinary thing. The lab was a very nice place.

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

But if we can manage it so people don’t have things forced on them that they don’t want, I think there’s every reason to believe things can settle out in a situation that is recognizably...

We still get to blow some stuff up. One of the most enjoyable things about doing special effects was going out and blowing up miniatures.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

I think the most important thing I work on is just my mental approach to every day, my mental approach to the game. How to come in each and every day focused, doing what I...

The North African mule talks always of his mother’s brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.

Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.

That was when I decided that I was going to keep doing this as half of what I was doing – just somehow try to foster Silicon Valley in Eastern Europe.

To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

Well, it’s very dangerous to project, but it’s clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don’t have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler.

At San Jose State I got very interested in the work of Stephen Wolfram, who wrote a pretty famous book called A New Kind of Science.

We need to drive like hell and get to the hills before the winter sets in.

I don’t think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they’re moving toward more diversity.

As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not all would be destroyed.

From the business point of view – not to overstate it – intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.

From my point of view for husband and wife to closely understand each other’s work and may even work together was most desirable.

I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one.

Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content.

In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I’m still absorbing its teachings.

You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited.

I’m writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it’s about social constructionism. So I would say I’m a social constructionist, whatever that means.

I’m against fashionable thinking.

I had taken Russian in high school, but then I hadn’t done anything with it. I’d always wanted to go to Russia but I was busy with my day job.

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma.

Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but it’s got a long time.

It’s a difficult question of relations between people.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

For many years I’d been concerned about technology and the future, and had been looking at what could be built with tools that we didn’t have yet.

You had to make a camera look like it’s traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn’t make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do...

The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.

Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That’s a different question.

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.