I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say

An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty

Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.

We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language.

I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.

Humans change themselves through technology.

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

The Holy One is a flame.

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . .

We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families.

Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].

After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.

To be honest, I don't listen to groups, really. Hardly ever. I know I'm in one, but I don't like them very much.

Overly focused, it's far from the time to rest now. Debates growin bout who they think is the best now

I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God.

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.