Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.
My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.
If we're going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals.
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.
Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children.
As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.
Two people can work on a problem better than one.
Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much.
One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.
Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.