I have felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it's there in your hands, to release this energy that fuels the stars, to let it do your bidding. To perform these miracles, to lift a million tons of rock into the sky. It is something that gives people an illusion of illimitable power, and it is, in some ways, responsible for all our troubles - this, what you might call technical arrogance, that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their minds.

I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in div…

The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming.

The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential point was to find the right archi…

I've said many times that you can't stop science.... God made man in his own image. God intended for man to become one with God. We are going to become one wit…

I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the …

'If we don't play god, who will?'