Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy.

What do you call that nice, shiny white metal they use to make sidings and airplanes out of? Aluminum, right? Aluminum, pronounced 'uh-LOO-mih-num', right? Anybody knows that! But do you know how the British spell it? 'Aluminium', pronounced 'Al-yoo-MIH-nee-um'. Ever hear anything so ridiculous? The French and Germans spell it 'aluminium', too, but they're foreigners who don't speak Earth-standard. You'd think the British, however, using our language, would be more careful

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.

Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

Computerization eliminates the middleman