Anger is a fuel. You need fuel to launch a rocket. But if all you have is fuel without any complex internal mechanism directing it, you don't have a rocket. You have a bomb

Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die.

After nearly 6,000 years of evidence on the subject, one thing stands clear: the people who end up as leaders in any organization, large or small, are often the craziest guys around.

If you can listen well, people will say you're a good conversationalist.

What about passion, dedication, loyalty? Can a robot provide those? No! On the other hand, it's easier to retire a robot when its day is done.

There are now some mountains that my brain can no longer climb.

Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.

There are no living beings who exert more power over others, pound for pound, than tiny babies and extremely thin moguls.

I would love to have the power to stop waking at 3 a.m. every night to check my e-mail.

I would like to have my consciousness digitally preserved and housed in a pleasant place for later insertion into a fully functional cyborg when that's possible.

I can't think of a comparable level of cultural excitement about something since Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in the 1960s.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

…love grown dutiful is love grown olda withered cupid faltering at the bow…

Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'.

We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.

We have to laugh at how hard life can be and how screwed up we can be at times... It's a really freeing process when you're not hitting the jokes too hard.

One man, one horse, one holocaust on demand.

I'm not too fond of the typical Australian activities or culture. I'm not into surfing.

I don't like overdubs, never liked them.

I write well on the road. I have the energy, I have the motivation to write. I'm happy when I'm on the road.

How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls,--a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury, or make one's children rich.