If you're going to make a law, make a law that actually works. It's extraordinarily difficult.

I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving.

Do not be afraid to fail, but also, do not be afraid to succeed.

I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.

There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.

The average American doesnt realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge...but their persistence at something.

If you start to do things that nobody does, you will get things that nobody gets.

Sunlight reflecting from rippled windows greatly accelerates plant growth by up to three times normal rates.

The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community.

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

I drink alone. Yeah, with nobody else. You know when I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself.

For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.

I don't think most people would want me to have a business relationship as a senator where my business partners can reap the benefit of my position and I one day get the share the profits.

The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god.

Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.

"True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing so.