Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

It's amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in less time.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of it - then one day you'll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one! And that's the way to become a computer scientist.

In a way, the Nobel Prize has been something of a pain in the neck, though there was at least one time that I got some fun out of it, Shortly after I won the Prize, Gweneth and I received an invitation from the Brazilian government to be the guests of honor at the Carnaval celebrations in Rio.

Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.