Its too bad Im not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that. – Alan Alda
I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me. – Alan Alda
I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you dont agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head. – Alan Alda
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. – Alan Alda
The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event – not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics – then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light. – Simon Winchester