"Many of the things that seem impossible now will become realities tomorrow."

“The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely”

“Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.”

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

“The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of 'the unaware', 'the unmusical', 'the unattuned.”

Source : Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.149, Macmillan

“What I do for living, working on something called string theory which we think may answer the fundamental question: Are there other universes? Can you go through a black hole? Can you warp the fabric of space and time and meet your mother before you were born? These are all questions that in principle string theory should be able to answer.”

“I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have the ability to travel all over the world and experience different cultures.”

“Truth has to fall on fertile soil.”

“The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times.”

“...heavy investments in information technology have delivered disappointing results - largely because companies tend to use technology to mechanize old ways of doing business...Instead of embedding outdated processes in silicon and software, we should obliterate them and start over.”

Source : "Reengineering work: don't automate, obliterate". Harvard Business Review, Volume 68, No.4, pp. 104, 1990.