Within the United States, there is a real division between the PhDs given in science and math to the Asian community, to the traditional white community, and then to African-Americans and Hispanics.

Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons' in our house. And all we've got is a Roomba.

The thing that keeps me most awake is the desire and curiosity to learn more.

There's a creativity, a power, an energy, an ability to do things unlike any other period in history. It's a little bit like sitting in the Renaissance, but multiplied a thousand-fold.

If I had a wand and could put statues in different places, one of the statues would go to a man who just died, called Norman Borlaug, who came up with the Green Revolution.

It's not completely inconceivable that someday you'll be able to download your own memories.

It's such an extraordinary time to be alive that you just don't want to miss it. I mean, it's a really neat historical period.

Since the 1940s, we've been saying there are no differences, we [humans] are all identical. We're going to know at year end if that is true.

There is so much extraordinary opportunity if you're curious, if you're interested.

The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.

Try to live without something digital - without digital code for about two hours, very hard to do if you're awake.

If you possess the character that you have in your daily lives, nobody can't forcefully change your personality unless you embrace their influence.

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

The simple fact that you care, that you want to do your best, that you strive to enjoy life and love, this makes you so much more than enough.

A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.

I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.

Every day as Chancellor I see alerts telling me of risks around the world.

Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity.

You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead

Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and causation.