Alan Alda quotes

If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.

It's very important for us to see that science is done by people, not just brains but whole human beings, and sometimes at great cost.

If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

I fix my grandchildren's computers.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity. All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you're not expecting it.

When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.

I love oatmeal. To me, it's not boring. I agree that ordinary oatmeal is very boring, but not the steel-cut Irish kind - the kind that pops in your mouth when you bite into it in little glorious bursts like a sort of gummy champagne.

If two scientists are giving their papers at a symposium, and one of them is just naturally better at talking to the public or talking to a group of people, that scientist is liable to get more attention - in fact, I'm told that they do get more attention - than the one who's a little more stiff about it. Well, that's not good for science.