Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.
If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.
A good-humored wife who appreciates most, if not all, of my humor - her price is far above rubies, as the book of Proverbs doesn't quite say.
I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.
Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.
The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans.
If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.
I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology and things like that.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine. Beer is great for basting or marinating meat and fish.
