I can't remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human.

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.

I have seen the future, and it is still in the future.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

What I am proud of, what seems so simply clear, is that feminism is a way to fight for justice, always in short supply.

You will only find the profoundly inexpressible in profound silence.

the more you stared up crap the more it's going to smell (/)

Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons.

We become what we do.

I guess you ought to be careful about cussin the dead. I would say at the least there probably ain't no luck in it.

When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.

Tune out the naysayers, tune into your own courage, and take a bold step toward the passion-filled life you really want.

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.