Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.

Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases.

The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.

I'm proposing … that we reach into our bodies and we grab the genotype, and we reach into the medical system and we grab our records, and we use it to build something together.

Grudges always bring negative feelings to any mind that opens its door for them to settle in.

I'm a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

Let's just hope that all the world is run by Bill Gates before the Perl hackers can destroy it.

Never mind the track. The track is for punks. We are Road People. We are Cafe Racers.

Not everybody is going to love what you do, but you have to be yourself, that's what's most important. Bring it as hard as you can.

Der Mensch ist, was er isst. Man is what he eats.

Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.

Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.

Societies who do not care for their young people and old people are decadent, decaying societies.