I can't tell you how many people would say to me as a teenager, 'Why don't you grow up and start thinking about getting a real job?'
“Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.”
“About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.”