Ed Lee Quotes

Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

Web applications will become more and more ubiquitous throughout our human environment, with walls, automobile dashboards, refrigerator doors all serving as displays giving us a window onto the Web.

Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.

No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore.

A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.

Well, some people die and then they sell more records, go figure.

But you know what I'm trying to say, it's that there's a couple of really dangerous drugs out there and I've lost some friends to them.

The Radiohead record, 'The Bends' is my all-time favorite record on the planet.

One day I would love to do rock a gig on the moon - how rad would that be? Isn't Richard Branson flying planes to outer space? Mötley Crüe could be the first band to play on the moon.

I think any stereotyping is too much.

And I know that God made the heart the most fragile and resilient of all organs, that a lifetime of joy and pain might be encased in one mortal chamber.

I was beloved. I had been hoped for. Somehow, I was necessary.

If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a writer even if you haven't published anything.

Don't thank me,' Mr. Curtain called as the door slid closed. 'Impress me!

And please don't call me that." I didn't call you 'that', I called you George Washington.

There is no end to the deceits of the past.

Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message.

There is too little courtship in the world.

Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

I've found that the only way to make theatre that gets the audience thinking is when I feel uncomfortable making it.

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.

To make this world a whole lot brighter, when I grow up I'll be a writer.

I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

Because life is complicated and difficult. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't truly lived.

I never really paid much attention to music that was going on in the UK. I was always looking towards the States for my inspiration.

I began to learn a lot of chords and rhythms. It was a bit boring at the time but came in very handy later on.

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

They have decided to tour under the name of Ten Years After which I don't think is very cool. To be honest, they have had to do that as it's the only way they can get any work.

I love folk; that's a big part of my background.

I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.

I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it to the table with whoever I'm collaborating with.

When you talk about God, the first thing that comes along is not love, it's fear. You have to fear, and be in awe. You have to be scared. Any religion, it's like first thing.

It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.

Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.

I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers.

Imitate the sun. Don't worry if people understand you. Just shine shine shine.

The moments when I first made something, like when I first wrote a song please me so intensely. Everything else after that is just the act of communication.

Baseball is a lot like the Army, there aren't many individuals. About the only difference is that baseball players get to stay in nice hotels instead of barracks.

We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.

Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right.

I guess I am handsome - in certain parts of the world. If I was, like, in Mongolia, living on a mountain and in my village, I could be the hottest guy. In L.A., I'm ... average?

People think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.

It's not that comedy has changed in terms of what's funny. For me, it's changed in that sometimes I don't feel my finger is on the pulse.

God has never disappointed me.