I think that the people that say we will never develop computer intelligence — they merely prove that some biological systems don't have much intelligence.

That head of yours should be for use as well as ornament.

You cannot lose if you have learned one new lesson.You cannot lose if you have helped one new person.You cannot lose if you have overcome one new obstacle.

You have not lost if you have learned one new lesson.You have not lost if you have helped one new person.You have not lost if you have overcome one new obstacle.

WISDOM is the STRONGEST weapon you could EVER acquire in your LIFETIME.

C. S. Lewis] showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages.

Reason can only work with the experience available to it. Wisdom atrophies if it is not walked on a regular basis.

How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver!—PROVERBS 16:16

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

I wish to live whatever life I have as fully and as sweetly as possible

With the Epicureans it was never science for the sake of science but always science for the sake of human happiness.