Science and religion are, of course, two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows.

Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.

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.

Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.

And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data.

The world is just - it's wonderful when you look at all the detail. It's just amazing. Nothing is boring if you look at it carefully.

We won't really understand the brain until we can make models of it which are analog rather than digital, which nobody seems to be trying very much.