Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this programmable architecture didn’t appear for more than a hundred years.

Chance favors the connected mind.

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.

Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water.

Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.

Build a tangled bank.

An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backwards. So when life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means that it's going to launch you into something great. So just focus, and keep aiming.

The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that confidence that you are the best out there at all times.

Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.

I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.

The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life.

It only hurt once, from beginning to end.

The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.

Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook, a situation, a 'what if.

Do a good job on a good film and you're on the map. Do a great job on a bad movie and not very many people will think of you.

When you face a fork in the road, step on the exhilarator!