I live below my means because it makes what I do seem less like a job and more like a passion.
Death is meaningless unless it happens to someone you know.
A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else.
Nowhere in the world can you find a wider variety of empty calories than at any American convenience store.
In most Life Situations, the truth is irrelevant. Once in a great while, however, it's the only thing you've got.
Look, I learned from your uncle that when the universe turns out to be insane, the wise man embraces insanity.
I just don't trust any of it. Every time I read something about how there's been another ridiculous climb of the Dow Jones, there's a part of me that goes, "This can't be good. " None of this is real money. You know what I mean? It's not like there's actually more of anything. It's just ideas. When people are getting richer and richer but they're not actually producing anything, it can't end well.
Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty, and we dream of finding new secrets of nature as important and as exciting as those uncovered by our scientific heroes. But we walk a narrow path with pitfalls on either side. If we spend all our time developing equipment, we risk the appellation of "plumber," and if we merely use the tools developed by others, we risk the censure of our peers for being parasitic.
I'm really good at standup. I always win at standup.
Story is what's most important.