The computer was, to the best of my feelings about the subject, not thinking like a mathematician, and it was much more successful, because it was thinking not like a mathematician.

Probability of human error is considerably higher than that of machine error.

Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs.

Everything is going to be all right. Miracles happen everyday.

That was all I wanted!" whispered Polly, in a tone which caused him to feel that the race of angels was not entirely extinct.

Waiting is one of the great arts.

Everything about the enterprise, and then by definition the software the enterprise uses has changed - just in the last 5 years.

If you look at the causes of the accidents, quite a few of them are operator error. We need people to be diligent and follow the rules of the road and drive more defensively.

I've seen death and I didn't like it.

The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers.

It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.

The interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something is happening over the course of a year and a half, or two years.