"Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction."

"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering."

"God is a verb."

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."

"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

"Either war is obsolete or men are."

"Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it."

"To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks."

"Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down."

"...a science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life."

"Why you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, and th most audacious soldier, put them at a table together-and what do you get? The sum of their fears."

"Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any."