I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It's a pointless delay that wrecks my pace - and mood.

Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?

I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.

Am I about to feel really, really stupid?

Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.

Failure is always an option.

I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.

The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

Don't work for fools. It's not worth it. Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.

Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.

Believe is the birth of all miracles.

Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?

Gossip is a kind of misalignment with people around you. You can either gossip about everyone, or you can become one with everyone.

There is no national problem in the world today which cannot be resolved by reason alone.

When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!

I don't have time to have friends come and stay, except on weekends in Maine. I invite a lot of people to come to Maine.

I was indeed very slow as a youngster.