I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.

I always say I'm no different than a 19th-century landscape painter, it's just that we have these incredible tools to look at the Earth and look at the world around us differently.

If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control.