Nothing is boring if you look at carefully.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.

If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

He thought to himself, I’ll never be this perfect again, an idea that made him sad.

Going to the gym at this odd hour didn't 'work out' for me.

Dating is really hard because everyone puts on a front. It's really difficult to see who is who, so it is important to be yourself.

The problems that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

Read everything you can on writing. Join online forums and critique groups, go to conferences, get feedback, and learn, learn, learn!

One should refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs.

The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.

Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me.

The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.

Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.