I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money. If you're in physics, you create inventions, you create lasers, you create transistors, computers, GPS.
Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.
The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live in an underground world and water striders live in a surface tension-dominated flatland, we live in a social world.
I'm pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column.
People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium.
My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you're a kid, you want to be just like your dad.
In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
By no definition of any modern scientist is intelligent design science, and it's a waste of our students' time to subject them to it.
Intelligent design, unlike creationism, is a science in its own right and can stand on its own feet.
In God becoming human in Jesus Christ, God has established solidarity with the human condition.
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong.
There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.
There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.
There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity.
I'm busier than ever and it's led to new opportunities. But I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.
My aunt is a famous L.A. chef, Susan Feniger, and she's got Street and Border Grill. So a fun night out for me is to go to my aunt's restaurants.
