American Quotes

I'm very wary of news on television.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.

But only God can make a tree.

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

It's very disappointing... Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore.

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

Why can't I be the adorable one?

Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence.

Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it.

My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think.

I'm off to race around the world - a race against time and two men. I know I can beat time. I hope I can beat the men.

I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.

I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.

Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.

I don't need a psychiatrist. I'm Catholic.

I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win.

Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.

Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.

Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.

Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits.

This could be done in part, because the equipment was very inexpensive. Not much money was involved in tooling so that basic changes of that type could be accomplished.

They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.

They were the largest semiconductor maker in the world up until about 1980. I'm not sure that that can be re-gained again, but their progress in the last few years has been very impressive.

There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.