A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving.

Do not be afraid to fail, but also, do not be afraid to succeed.

I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.

There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.

The average American doesnt realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge...but their persistence at something.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.(Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot)

When you finally betray me, I hope you care enough to try to kill my yourself.

No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.

When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.

I see guys dressing like they're in college - and they're not. I don't want to be that guy.

Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so.

I don't know what "Altmanesque" means, though I suppose I'm flattered by it.

The most wonderful inspirational chemistry we can use on another is the gift of our love and acceptance. Devoted and unquestioned love has a magic creative power.