I think it's a big mistake to decide too soon what you're going to do with your life.

Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere.

Most of what we see in the universe is dust.

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.

There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures.

Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.

Committees do harm merely by existing.