An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.

A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.

There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.

I don't seek power and do not run around.