If you're going to download an MP3, as a recording, it's sort of like an archive of something that has happened - that has a beginning and an end and can be released. The infiniteness escaped.

Real randomness requires an infinite amount of information.

Computers are only capable of a certain kind of randomness because computers are finite devices.

Especially with iPhones, iPads and apps, there's just so much detachment that you're just flicking your fingers on a smooth surface to get the weather or whatever.

There's a branch of math called the foundations of math. It's kind of like quantum mechanics. It's about how this very complex theory of math can be built up from very basic parts.

I think people should consume their music any way they want. If it's more practical for them to listen to it on an iPod or something, that's fine by me.

People generally like to subscribe to celebrities.

Whenever you have something looping, you essentially have something generating information with less information.

It is possible to get rich only by being diligent

Preferring steady progress, slow and imperfect, is a good philosophy for the defeated.

Goal-oriented actions bring success but actions with love and kindness bring happiness.

When I'm, like, 30, I want to go off the map, have a family and live in Malibu with a farm, and just raise my own chickens.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Hit the nail on the head.

I've never worked out what the moral of Humpty Dumpty is. I can only think of: Don't sit on a wall, if you're an egg.

As a black person I am no stranger to prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far more often discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.