“I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn’t want to chance ruining the machine.”

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.

The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.

Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.

I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.

There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.

Our choices in the present decide our future.

A human being is a deciding being.

Decide your value, find an investor & then make a move.

The oldest, shortest words – ‘yes’ and ‘no’ – are those which require the most thought.

Decide that you are no longer be a button that can easily be pushed to react.  

The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.

Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.