"I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop."

"If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it."

"A religion which requires persecution to sustain it is of the devil's propagation."

"Alchohol, the cause of and the solution to all the world's problems."

"Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feelings as to sight?"

"The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen."

"Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount."

"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something."

"Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 12 tons."

"If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down."