I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

The single most important lesson of effective communication is this: Focus on clarity. Concentrate on precisions. Don’t worry about constructing beautiful sentences. Beauty comes from meaning, not language. Accuracy is the most effective style of all.

Study what you love, and youll never have to work a day in your life. Itll be one great adventure.

The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.

Doesn't anybody ever want to talk about anything else besides 'Star Trek?' There were 79 episodes of the series; there were 55 different writers. I was only one of them.

If you're passing the buck, don't ask for change.

I had always been fascinated by the whole idea that Australia was this different ecology and that when rabbits and prickly pears and other things from Europe were introduced into Australia, they ran amok.