Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

People think of education as something that they can finish.

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

Embrace fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests, consuming passions, and constant sources of gratification that do not depend on the approval of others

Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!

How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!

Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.

Cake and tea or death?

Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.

I am in favor of the European institutions being led for the next two-and-a-half years as they have been thus far. We need stability.

I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963.

The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.

Yes, I definitely plan to direct at some point.