"Today, especially, it's a really unclear situation in terms of where the Israelis are at, and where the Palestinians are at, the world is kind of changing around us."

“Happiness is a function of accepting what is.”

“It says something about the curious nature of film, that someone can be so alive on screen, when we're all too aware that they've passed. it underscores how we're mortal, and films are immortal (commenting on the death of Heath Ledger)”

“How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?”

Source : "How to Avoid TV Dinners While Watching TV" by Joan Barthel, The New York Times Magazine, p. 34, August 7, 1966.

“The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich American life by exposing it to the science and art of many societies.”

“To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a whole.”

Source : "The Father of Quantum Computing". Interview with Quinn Norton, www.wired.com. February 15, 2007.

“As far as unwed mothers on welfare are concerned, it seems to me that they must be capable of some other form of labor.”

“Dogs are not people dressed up in fur coats, and to deny them their nature is to do them great harm.”

“I take my work seriously but I can't take myself too seriously. I'm in such a crazy privileged position.”