Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.

There are wavelengths that people cannot see, there are sounds that people cannot hear, and maybe computers have thoughts that people cannot think.

If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work.

Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants." These days we stand on each other's feet!

The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you’re doing.

Typing is no substitute for thinking.

True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter.

You can tell other people all the alibis you want. I don't mind. But to yourself try to be honest.

Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about physical processes.

I can't resist that's why I exist to take you there kissed

They may fight with us, but they don't fight for us.

Pain comes with the decision of choosing what I have to offer now, but this same pain is needed to shape you for the greater destiny ahead.

My golf game's gone off so much that when I went fishing a couple of weeks ago my first cast missed the lake.

The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.

In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of envy can lead to emulation and ambition and have positive consequences.

Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.

I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was set in the trenches, so to speak.

Happiness is like a butterfly - the more you chase, the more subtle, but if you stop moving and quietly wait for it to land on you.

The Canadian community must invest, for the defence and better appreciation of the French language, as much time, energy, and money as are required to prevent the country from breaking up