Quotes About Curiosity

We're big believers that people can learn to collect through the eyes of great collectors.

I was a maverick. I went to five different colleges looking for I don't know quite what.

I do a lot of lecturing, at colleges and police schools, and I always get the same questions: 'Do they really kill you? What do they do with the money? How do you become a wiseguy?'

What I say is, 'If you're so rich, how come you're so dumb?'

When I was a child, I wanted to watch things that made me laugh. It's attacking boredom, as simple as that. I was 19 when I first went to a comedy club - I wanted to do it, so I gave it a try and that was it. I found my office.

What I like best is the challenge of learning something I didn't know how to do, going beyond my comfort level.

I really wasn't into comic books growing up.

I came to comic books when I was about 15.

The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of.

Where's my food? When is it coming? What did I order, anyway?

I hope I could spend the rest of my life learning and communicating.

I started collecting crickets to study them. Now I expect they will be my companions for many years to come.

When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.

Never, ever, compromise on science.

I don't sit down in front of my computer screen and think, 'Right. Today I shall begin a story set in this or that period of history.' I just get ideas from the world around me.

Dad was very into electronics, robotics and computers, so I was interested in what he was doing.

If I wasn't a professional scientist, I'd be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into computers.

I first got interested in the brain through computers.

Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

Africa was the most exotic place I could conceive of - the end of the world - and I knew I would go there one day.

Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?

That part of life is the thing that we really need to concentrate on. If you lose the way children look through their eyes at the world, it really becomes kind of a doldrum.

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.

Boredom is a concept that I don't understand.