All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Describing John von Neumann's aspiration for the application of computers sufficiently large to solve the problems of meteorology, despite the sensitivity of the weather to small perturbations.

I like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It's not so important to get the glory. It's much more important to get something that works. It's a better way to live.

Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious creationists and scientific materialists are equally dogmatic and insensitive. By their arrogance they bring both science and religion into disrepute.

In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries.

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

I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.