The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.

The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

I believe any decline would lock in a Fed increase with some certainty.

You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy's a fun place. You'll need to have this fish in your ear.

Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species.

I felt like I had to prove myself, but I feel that you have to do that anyway, as an actor. You're there to do a job, and that's your primary concern.

Some people will ruin a movie for you if they enthuse too much.

We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.

I want to get physical, let's get into physical, let me hear your body talk, your body talk.

It’s not my job to want you or not want you. It’s not my job to earn you.

On every commercial flight, the traveler is told, "Your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device". The question is, why doesn't the plane just become a boat?

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.