You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.
But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing.
The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.
The world is so different for a child, waking in the mornings, wide-eyed and ready to take it all in.
To a physicist, we have the 'I' word, the I-word is 'impossible.' That's dangerous.
Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.
You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.
I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.
Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.
One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.
I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939.
Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
In science, it is rare that a transformational change occurs during our lifetimes.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
