I'm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. I've got this beautiful mind and it's going to die, and it'll all be gone. And then I say, not in my case. Every idea I've ever had I've written down, and it's all there on paper. And I won't be gone; it'll be there.

The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human being. Mankind will therefore have become largely a race of machine tenders.

One thought that occurs to me is that men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit them better.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects...and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity.

Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.

Scientists expect to be improved on and corrected; they hope to be