"Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture"

"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent"

"Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked"

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today"

"Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve"

"Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail"

"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed"

"In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough"

"We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans"

"Women are responsible for creating their own roles"

"Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time"