Tuesday, July 7, 2009

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."

"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."

"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

"God is subtle but he is not malicious."

"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."

"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."

"The only real valuable thing is intuition."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."

"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage --

-- to move in the opposite direction."

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."

(Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

"When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the perfect woman. Well I found her -- but, alas, she was waiting for the perfect man."

Sunday, March 29, 2009

"Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?"

"Our lives are frittered away by detail; simplify, simplify."

"What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we've ever come up with, and it's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds."

"If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original."

"When forced to work within a strict framework the imagination is taxed to its utmost - and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom the wo

Whoops - lost some of this one. Will fix if I can find it again. - Ed.

"Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint."

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

"Computers are useless for they can only give answers."