Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

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.

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.

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

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.

You can be satisfied in life because you have and are fulfilling your important mission in life

Life is a wondrous journey that can be of your own making or a combination of fate and luck.

Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader's arsenal.

I don't really put a lot of swearing in my music. I want everybody to be able to enjoy it.

I didn't know I wanted to be a hairdresser. I was always interested in fashion and imagery in a very naive way, but it was always an attraction, like glitter balls.

Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.

Mother, you had me, but I never had you.

When one lifts a ballerina, it is not her weight but her nature that causes the problem.

I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more time in mere recreation in one day than I spent in private religious devotions.

What made me love thee? let that persuade thee, there's something extraordinary in thee