Dartmouth is the place I've devoted my life to, so it's very sad to see this kind of decline in the intellectual strength of the institution.

The pressure to give A grades is intense. It comes from the students and increasingly from their parents as well.

Progress across the time axis is passive. Progress up the results axis is passion.

The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it.... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?

In their capacity as a tool, computers will be but a ripple on the surface of our culture. In their capacity as intellectual challenge, they are without precedent in the cultural history of mankind.

The universe is Why, How, and What, in any order, and all at once.

If you don't come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you're not trying hard enough

We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.

Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.