We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.
When you have a strongly held belief, don’t you think it’s important to express that belief accurately?
You can’t get decent Mexican food in DC.
Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of the water want to understand it. Other people jump in and get wet.
This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.
It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.
The minute we look, we cease being afraid.
Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.
Let’s be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven’t got the power to destroy the planet – or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.
Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they’ll choose life everytime.
They didn’t understand what they were doing. I’m afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.
At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.
God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.
No one escapes from life alive.
He prays because he knows he doesn’t control it. He’s at the mercy of it.
All major changes are like death. You can’t see to the other side until you are there.
They don’t have intelligence. They have what I call ‘thintelligence.’ They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it ‘being focused.’ They don’t see the surround. They don’t see the consequences.
And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.
One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal.
Science can’t tell you why anything happens.