The most important victories are those that come after the hardest defeats.

The best buildings come from good clients who trust the architect.

The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence—these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.

已所不欲，勿施于人。

The other thing about modern society and why it causes this anxiety, is that we have nothing at its center that is non-human. We are the first society to be living in a world where we don't worship anything other than ourselves. We think very highly of ourselves, and so we should; we've put people on the Moon, done all sorts of extraordinary things. And so we tend to worship ourselves.

The concept of reducibility is central to understanding the relationships between different computational problems.

I'm not a rapper, I'm a beast.