"Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction."

"I am the only guinea pig I have."

"I think I am a verb."

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."

"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

"Either war is obsolete or men are."

"It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow."

"When a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath travelled altogether behind him."

"The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think."

"He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city."

"We have always been sort of monosyllabic in terms of languages, and that extends into ignorance or wariness of other cultures."

"I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing."