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Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't.".

Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.

As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.

You know you've achieved perfection in design, Not when you have nothing more to add, But when you have nothing more to take away.

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

Always the more beautiful answer who asks the more beautiful question.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Thinking is the hardest work there is. Which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.

A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and human stupidity.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.