"I think digital media is a valid tool, one that has it's own strengths and weaknesses. So often I see people dismissing digital art as somehow cheating or not as valid or important as traditional art, but the computer is just another tool."

“Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.”

Source : Sir William Temple (1814). “The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart: An essay upon the advancement of trade in Ireland. Of popular discontents. An introduction to the history of England. Of gardening. An essay upon the cure of the gout by moxa. Of health and long life. Of heroic virtue. Of poetry. An essay upon ancient and modern learning. Thoughts upon reviewing that essay. Of the excesses of grief. Of the different conditions of life and fortune. Heads of an essay on conversation. Poetry”, p.125

“There is no fixed road to wealth, and goods do not stay with the same master forever.”

“Elijah Wood is interested in people, in life and in music.”

“They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered to say the prayer in his stead. He did it perfectly, too, without a single stutter. Later he explained, "I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me."”

“Sport is the only profession I know of that when you retire you have to go to work.”

“This is the effect of panic, a natural effect, you could say that animal nature is like this, plant life would behave in exactly the same way, too, if it did not have all those roots to hold it in the ground, and how nice it would be to see the trees of the forest fleeing the flames.”

“I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was Einstein.”

Source : "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today Interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.

“When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.”