"The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation."

"The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead."

"A self-balancing, 28-jointed adaptor-based biped; an electro-chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62,000 miles of capillaries...."

"Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself."

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow - it empties today of strength."

"Hell must be isothermal; for otherwise the resident engineers and physical chemists (of which there must be some) could set up a heat engine to run a refrigerator to cool off a portion of their surroundings to any desired temperature."

"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

"All dimensions are critical dimensions, otherwise why are they there?"

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

"This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."

"Equation (1.2-9) is a second order, nonlinear, vector, differential equation which has defied solution in its present form. It is here therefore we depart from the realities of nature to make some simplifying assumptions..."

"In a world where there is so much to be done. I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do."

"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again."

"Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing."

"Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done."

"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work."

"The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is."