When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.

When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.

We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.

If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.

Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?

Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?

Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates read more

Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form read more

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something read more

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking read more

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.