"What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not."

“I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale.”

“Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with a dim but unerring sense for what will some day be born of it.”

“When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.”

“The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action.”

Source : "Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search". Communications of the ACM 19 (3), (p. 116), March 1976.

“We have a responsibility to look after our planet. It is our only home.”

“It's in the interest of the U.S. to maintain a strong democracy in Colombia.”

“Every invention creates new needs, but the biggest needs are not for new and more advanced versions of the last invention but for solutions to the social problems the last invention created.”

Source : "The Joys of Technology: Burying Ourselves in Capabilities" by Philip Slater, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2007.