Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.
Security matters should not be entrusted to people who make decisions without weighing things up.
The Americans are and remain our best friends, but this is absolutely not right. We can't simply return to business as usual.
Confidentiality and transparency are not mutually exclusive, but rather two sides of the same coin.
You cannot protect something without intervening on some level.
Everyone learns in a crisis.
I am sympathetic to the fact that Turkey is doing everything it can to prevent the civil war in Syria from spilling over into its own country.
I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas.
The first instinct is love.
Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.
I come from a time when pop music was the coin of the cultural realm and in a certain way was the only coin of the realm; movies didn't matter as much, and not TV - it was all about pop music. In the era when I started - which was the early '60s - it was all about singles leading to albums.