"Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science"

"Music is my religion"

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage"

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"

"I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens"

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away"

"The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation"

"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more"

"I've always been into melodies. That's what I love about music – a good melody that gives you goosebumps"

"If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic"

"We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it"