For me there has never been an amount of money that makes it worth doing something that is not fun.

Unless people can express themselves well in ordinary English, they don't know what they are talking about.

So much time is currently spent in worrying about the future that the present is allowed to go to hell.

Every problem interacts with other problems and is therefore part of a set of interrelated problems, a system of problems. I choose to call such a system a mess.

Nothing is harder to topple than a fact that supports a deeply held prejudice denied by its holder.

The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts.

A problem never exists in isolation; it is surrounded by other problems in space and time. The more of the context of a problem that a scientist can comprehend, the greater are his chances of finding a truly adequate solution.