Design: holding conflicting ideas in your head without difficulty

Global consciousness is that thing responsible for deciding that pots containing decaffeinated coffee should be orange.

I am convinced that we humans are just at the beginning of our journey, on our way to becoming something more wonderful than we can imagine.

If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.

The computers are in control. We just live in their world.

An attitude of only taking what you need was built into the protocols of the Internet itself.

I'm as fond of my body as anyone, but if I can be 200 with a body of silicon, I'll take it.

We're at a point in time which is analogous to when single-celled organisms were turning into multi-celled organisms. So we're the amoebas.

It was a test of a fragile trust. It was a test of our curiosity and fascination, which walked side by side with our fear. A test of whether we preferred to be ignorant or unsafe.

Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.

What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.

Parents should not let kids listen to my music if it's offensive. I wrote these songs for me.

Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb. The grand buildings will still be standing, but the people who built them will be gone.

That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs.

You create your response to reality, and that response, for all practical purposes, is your reality.

Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I mean, to resent it as a humiliating patronage.

Charles Barkley taught me a lot when I played against him. How he would use his body or use his dribble to get people in there and all that stuff. Veteran moves.