Traveling is more fun - hell, life is more fun - if you can treat it as a series of impulses.

Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it’s a battleground.

For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.

He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.

You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a windblown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.

The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.