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

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.

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.

It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.

Books are readable drugs.

There is no collective thinking.

Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.

I went through one period when I smoked a surprising, a really breath-taking, amount of grass almost every night.

Nobody ever arrives at a very big idea through a conscious, rational thought process. It comes from your unconscious.

They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever.

I would hate for people to generalize about every Haitian from something that one Haitian did, or a group of Haitians did.

Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

I don't know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn't even like to tell me people about that. I really hate selling myself.