I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money.
I am not attracted to those politicians who are short on vision and only want to make money. I like those who have vision.
Nowadays there are too many players who can't get a contract elsewhere, who come to England and just take the money.
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.
Father Fernando did every thing in his power to assist the sick; and although he arrived much reduced in flesh, he did not become ill, and is now well.
I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.
Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.
I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.
I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.
Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.
He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.
My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.
Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander... It's just an extension of humanity.
I feel like touchscreen technology blows my mind still. It just makes me think of all of the sci-fi films I enjoyed as a kid.
