If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

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

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.