Coding is a privilege, but that privilege is not available to most Americans.

The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.

I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more.

The Loch Ness monster doesn't exist either. Loch Ness is just not big enough to hide a thirty foot amphibian or reptile for hundreds of years.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

A people's speech is the skin of its culture.

We need to create a new revolution, and to do that, don’t waste your life: stop pleasing people, and become who you always wanted to be.

If the art is concealed, it succeeds.

If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can ... and accepting them.