“So my wife’s experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they’re doing.”

These are people from everywhere, from Lawrence Livermore and JPL and Sandia National Labs, the FBI, all over the place, real scientists who see what we’re doing, and they consistently thank us.

We’re allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.

I’m always going to be making costumes. It’s one of the ways I relax my brain.

From earliest times, humans – explorers and thinkers – have wanted to figure out the shape of their world.

In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head

That was excellent! I mean, it didn’t do anything, but it looked really cool!

Firemen have the coolest toys ever!

The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century

Well, first he called me up to tell me to clear my crap back out of his shop – and he said, “

Half of it is absolutely genuine, and half of it is us playing around with that fact.

I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it.

Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore.

Failure is always an option.

Growing up in New York, I was sort of shocked when I realized that my children are Californians.

Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.

The closer the deadline, the more likely you’ll start thinking waaay outside the box.

George Harrison: The day after the Blue Angel audition.

I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.

Rock ‘n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm.

I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.

The window doesn’t open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.

And there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.

You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.

People didn’t know the difference between a blue line and a clothes line.