Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.

I'm working myself to death.

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.