I don't think that the world will ever become an unpoliced place, sadly. But I do feel that there is relative freedom on the margins.

An updated notion of genius would have to center around one's mastery of information and its dissemination.

Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them.

If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive.

It's not plagiarism in the digital age -- it's repurposing.

You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion.

Conceptual writing is looking for that "Aha!" moment, when something so simple, right under our noses, is revealed as being awe- inspiring, profound, and transcendent.

Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.

I think that the richer and deeper documentation is on the web, the better off we all are.

I never wanted my books to be mistaken for poetry or fiction books; I wanted to write reference books. But instead of referring to something, they refer to nothing.

I've been trolled lots on Twitter. But I understand trolls for what they are and I don't let them get to me. They take my bait, so I'm in charge of the discourse.

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.

Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.

My life has been devoted to peacemaking.

I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.

Introverts paradoxically pull away from culture and create culture.

The reasons we can't sleep at night are usually the same reasons we don't truly live during the day.

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.