On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate

Real wealth is ideas plus energy.

We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars' worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs. It doesn't take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Some of us are just less damaged than others.

... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.

The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.