"I have a friend who is an artist and has some pictures which he thinks are very good... and he says, 'I am a value-free man. I don't believe in values.' And I say, 'Oh, really? Then why are your pictu…"

"I would often go to these conferences where they would talk about the ultimate theory, and I would always say, 'What's the ultimate experiment?'"

"I don't know anything, but I know that I know nothing. And that's the beginning of wisdom."

"I guess I'm just mischievous. I just love to do that to people. Well especially when they're so gleefully happy that it's been going to cost 13 signatures haha."

"Fiddling is the answer. Experimenting is fiddling around. It's not an organized program, elegance — it's impossible. I noticed it."