I operate under the assumption that the mass media will never be accurate. ... It operates with the objective to simplify and exaggerate, which is exactly what Walt Disney told his cartoonists.

Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It's bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back.

This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.

The system didn't screw you. The system revealed you.

The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.

It's not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.

Caring is irrelevant. Desire to do good is irrelevant. All that counts is knowledge and results