Your ignorance cramps my conversation
I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really, is the math, and other people have the ideas.
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.
Steven Spielberg makes Minority Report with the newest digital technology; other directors seem to be trying to make their movies from it.
You know, what's interesting is, being your own self is kind of a blur.
I started growing roses. I enjoyed the craft of it and that they're difficult to look after; they can provide joy.
Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.