Vade Mecum I want the scissors to be sharp and the table perfectly level when you cut me out of my life and paste me in that book you always carry.
The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines.
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.
Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.
Nothing is boring if you look at carefully.
The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.
And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.
I believe every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. Violence should not be answered just by greater violence but by real understanding. We must ask: 'Where is the violence coming from? What is its meaning?
If I could have just 1 per cent of the money spent on global armaments, no one in this world would go to bed hungry.
You mean other than the wings? I once ate nine snicker bars in a row without barfing. It was a record.