Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Never fight an inanimate object.

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"
Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

If the minimum wasn't acceptable it wouldn't be called the minimum.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

"Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up."