“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”

Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.

How much do you value life? Sixty-four.

The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.

All mass is interaction.

Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.

I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.

Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.

The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels. I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? People read.

Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.

That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.

Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.

It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear.

Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.

I had a pretty public divorce. They’re not easy – divorces – and it took me a long time to really get through.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa’s young people properly.

Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume … that we really know the score…. [But] this is not an easy assignment.

If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.

I’m from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers… it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.