University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East..

The unread is always better than the unreadable..

This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go..

There never was a sounder logical maxim of scientific procedure than Ockham's razor: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. That is to sa….

Get all the education you can then go out and do something - do anything..

You're tearing me apart!.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go..

The one-legged never stumble..

Where's the rest of me?.

There are worse things than being constantly hired to do anything..

Money out of nothing is money that is eventually worth nothing..

My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my bo….

No faith is our own that we have not arduously won..

A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and alm….

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms..

I take things too seriously..

Wanderlust is incurable..

Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and ….

I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience..

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry..

How can I dispose of myself with it?.