"I think I am done with Wikipedia for the time being. But I have a secret hope. Someone recently proposed a Wikimorgue - a bin of broken dreams where all rejects could still be read, as long as they weren't libelous or otherwise illegal."

"Wisdom principle 44 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 69."

"From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound."

"I've always thought of myself as shy."

"I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side."

"I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students."

"The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time."

"I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet."