The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver...No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful, has ever exercised such absolute authority to arrange a stage or a field of battle and to command such unswervingly dutiful actors or troops.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Black holes are where God divided by zero.

(Referring to a glass of water) I mixed this myself. Two parts H, one part O. I don't trust anybody!