The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.

The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.

There’s magic in spontaneity—some of my favorite recordings were done in one take.

Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea then how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.