Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.

Everybody remembers numbers and computers remember numbers. People remember procedures and computers certainly remember procedures. But the other thing that's still important is that your perception as a human is affected subtly by all this stuff that you can't quite articulate. You run your life according to all this stuff that's happened to you. All of your memories affect everything you do whereas with a computer, there's adaptive software and things, but it's more literal.

You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.

There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.

One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.

My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.

Along with the evidence of common sense, researchers have proven scientifically that humans are all one people. We're a lot like dogs in that regard. If a Great Dane interacts (can we say interact?) with a Chihuahua, you get a dog.