Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
