I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

I wanted to join Footlights, ” he says. “I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact I wanted to be John Cleese and it took me some time to realise that the job was in fact taken.

But now he felt as if the whole world were tipping backwards over his head, and this, he couldn’t help feeling, was a very worrying thing for the world to do.

Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.

Mediocrity is contextual.

The more you paint the more fluent you are with your brush.

I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.

I will set a target for the reduction of (government) employees ... I will implement the reduction of the total personnel costs of the employees.

Old age is a hindrance to creativity but cannot crush my youthful spirit.

A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!

There are bands, like R.E.M., who want to have 17 records, and some are terrible and some are great. I don't know if people think like that anymore. Things are more atomized now.

I have so much to be thankful for. I work with the most amazing people, get to make people laugh for a living and have the most amazing friends. But, I am mostly thankful for Spanx.