I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.
I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.
The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.
But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television.
Robert Graysmith: [Both are brushing their teeth] Spit. Aaron Graysmith: I swallowed it. Robert Graysmith: Why? Aaron Graysmith: It was minty.
I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.
Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.
Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.
Whatever basic science resolves, at some stage it is of use to society. The problem is we do not know when or where.
The whole of the hydrogen on the earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe as a new star.
I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.
We do spend too much time on the telephone, and you know something? We love it.
Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.
I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.
Dick Liddil: I guess we're the night-owls, you and I...
Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.
The sphinx will always have to be looked after.
The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.
