While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute’s computer; we also went on hikes together.

The scientist’s inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.

My grandfather on my mother’s side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

When I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both Murray Gell-Mann's and Feynman's doors and asked them what they were currently doing. Murray wrote down the partition function for the three-dimensional Ising model and said it would be nice if I could solve it (at least that is how I remember the conversation). Feynman's answer was 'nothing'.

Life is to be lived through action not by dreaming.

At the present time I am trying to win acceptance for a program of support for scientific computing in universities from industry and government.

While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together.

Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts.

One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969.

In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services.