I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.
The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.
In this time of budget cuts we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.
Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science the way you had to be in England in the 17th 18th centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can and the information that they need to do it is there.
The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science.
Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.
I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting more exotic more wild and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach where information is the highest goal.
We're as clever as we think we are but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors.
That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information and indigestible glut of information and less and less understanding.
I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder or at least my biggest blunder in science.