If you wish to achieve any success in this life, do your best to surround yourself with an orgy of good choices.

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature.

Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most science-y sports, because it literally is just a ball and a surface and objects to knock down.

When you hang around a lot of comedians long enough, you realize there's a certain gene, in every comedian. It's why we get hyper-analytical about things.

I do seem like the kind of guy who'd be obsessive about Rubik's Cubes.

No matter what tricks you use or what decisions you make, go easy on yourself as someone who's on a never-ending quest for improvement.

Steal moments of happiness if you have to, and then collect them until they are the dominant images in your psyche.

I almost think of nerd brains as rattlesnake venom; like, you can milk it. You can milk the pulpy venom out of the nerd brain and use it for good if you want to.

Humans cannot produce viable offspring with our closest animal cousin: the chimpanzee. We cannot impregnate a chimp. So you know what that means? No condoms.

I've gone from being bullied by jocks as a kid to being bullied by nerds as an adult.

We must stay strong so we can keep going.

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

If you must make a mistake, make a new one each time.

Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.

At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

When you meditate, you activate cosmic energies.

Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.

This is a bit different to the Thursday breakfast I'm used to. It's usually just me and my dog.

That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.

Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.