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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.

As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.

I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.

We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that.

Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers.

Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object?

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor

There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can't be too narrow on science.

God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia.

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.

In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.

In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.

Logic doesn't apply to the real world. D. R. Hofstadter and D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind's I, 1981.

If I die tomorrow or in a year, it is the same — it is the message you leave behind you that counts.

After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

If time travel were possible, you still wouldn't be able to change the past - it's already happened!

Ideologies are too seductive anyway. It does a man good to see things from a different point of view.

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events

All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact

My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it.

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true.

Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.

Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor.

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.

Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding. It can be, 'Hey we tried that. We can go forward, smarter.'

I contend that the ethos of perpetual non-judgment is intellectually dishonest if not outright cowardly.

The Christmas-New Year's holiday season can be a double-edge sword when it comes to one's mental health.

There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.

Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting.

The brain secretes thought as the stomach secretes gastric juice, the liver bile, and the kidneys urine.

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