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.

Design: holding conflicting ideas in your head without difficulty

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.

Christianity is living hope.

The beckoning counts, not the clicking latch behind you

In our very ordinariness', we are capable of extraordinary actions

To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error.

My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.

I have Twitter so I can tell people what I want them to buy and they give me money.

The life you live in front of an audience is like an altered state - it's not totally real. I'm always, even in the course of one day, trying to find ways to balance both sides.

I'm not worrying about my mechanics-and that's a fun feeling. It's nice to be confident and not worry about where my hands and feet are.

There is a country proverb which says, 'If you don't trouble trouble - trouble won't trouble you.

Making a movie is like a stagecoach ride through the Old West: at first you wish for a pleasant trip, and after a while you just hope you reach your destination.