I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

I think the chances are that people are more dumb than smart and they forget quickly.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, 'Oh, I forgot that bit,' then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you've figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

Hell didn't make me a monster. It just confirmed all my worst fears about myself.

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.