It often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find they don't work, so I have to give it up.

Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.

Perhaps we could write code to optimize code, then run that code through the code optimizer?

Science makes God unnecessary.

For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.

All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.

Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.