In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.

He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.

Although knowledge of how things work is sufficient to allow manipulation of nature, what humans really want to know is why things work. Children don't ask how the sky is blue. They ask why the sky is blue.

It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda.

When I sit down in front of a Windows machine, I can't write; when I sit down in front of my Mac, I can write. So I only use Macs.

The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.