The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.

The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish.

The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.

If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.

That was the wonderful thing about Ramanujan. He discovered so much, and yet he left so much more in his garden for other people to discover.

For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin. I just enjoy calculating, and it's an instrument I know how to play. It's almost an athletic performance, in a way. I was just watching the Olympics, and that's how I feel when proving a theorem.

It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models.