"I've been fortunate over the years to have been on good teams and as a result I've been able to score some goals but I wouldn't say I'm great at it."

“I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.”

“But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.”

“I personally know women who are Breast Cancer survivors and will do all I can to support the cause. Besides, I love boobies!”

“We [me and my wife] went back to St. Paul, worked for a year - again, I guess I would have to admit now, doing a rather shaky job of teaching people - but at the end of that year we returned to England and worked in the [Bernard] Leach Pottery for two and a half years.”

“There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.”

“Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.”

“I didn't have any qualifications when I left school - I had three O-levels.”

“If the organisms in a species now have trait T, and this trait now helps those organisms to survive and reproduce because the trait has effect E, a natural hypothesis to consider is that T evolved in the lineage leading to those current organisms because T had effect E. This hypothesis is "natural," but it often isn't true!”