"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds."

"There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California."

"The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already."

"When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem."

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."

"My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself."

"The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!"

"It is a timeless truth that the universe speaks in the silent dialect of universal natural laws."