In fact, all of us have a piece of Chernobyl in our bodies going back to 1986.

[T]he yeoman's work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.

It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything.

A related aspect of intelligent consciousness is delay of gratification: the wisdom to accurately predict whether delay rather than acting on impulse will yield greater benefit.

In the future we'll be able to mentally contact anybody we want, see whatever image we want. And when we don't like it, we'll just turn it off.

I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money.

You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human mind.