Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
I'm not a glamour boy, and I never get the girl. I like to play old people, because there's something to them. Did you ever see anybody under 30 with any real character or expression in his face?
Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also be detected and measured by coincidences; this provides valuable information about the structure of the...
Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today.
Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.
Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.
To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than w...
Beware of geeks bearing formulas.
I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's pa...
We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
