It's good to leave your room super-messy when you're away. Whoever tries to break into your room will thought it has already been ransacked.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

Generally, old media don't die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven't been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn't want a TV screen on your headstone.

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first

I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.

To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.