We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.