It is the gifted, unorthodox individual, in the laboratory, or the study, or the walk by the river at twilight, who has always brought to us, and must continue to bring to us, all the basic resources by which we live.

A society committed to the search for truth must give protection to, and set a high value upon, the independent and original mind, however angular, however rasping, however socially unpleasant it may be; for it is upon such minds, in large measure, that the effective search for truth depends.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

We will spend more on development resources for the Basic PC.

But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world that we have to live.

If you don't want to do something that's unorthodox, you look to the bench.