A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them.

But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.

Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out.

I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at.

You don't use science to show you're right, you use science to become right.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.

The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.

Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’

Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.

If at first you don't succeed, that's one data point.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.

It can be so difficult to get people to think about systemic institutional problems. It is easier just to see the actions of one or two people and say, "That's wrong!"

A chic guy is in a suit. I don't care what kind of tie they wear. I don't care if they even wear a tie, as long as they can carry a suit.

I really like the P!nk song with the guy from fun., 'Just Give Me a Reason.'

Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.

Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants?

Why would you go anyplace without your iPad? This is the greatest invention. When it gets a little more power, my God. It's like my office.

Well, you're not exactly Superman, but you're awfully available.

The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy.