It's not plagiarism in the digital age -- it's repurposing.

An updated notion of genius would have to center around one's mastery of information and its dissemination.

Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them.

If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive.

You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion.

Conceptual writing is looking for that "Aha!" moment, when something so simple, right under our noses, is revealed as being awe- inspiring, profound, and transcendent.

Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.

I think that the richer and deeper documentation is on the web, the better off we all are.

I never wanted my books to be mistaken for poetry or fiction books; I wanted to write reference books. But instead of referring to something, they refer to nothing.

I've been trolled lots on Twitter. But I understand trolls for what they are and I don't let them get to me. They take my bait, so I'm in charge of the discourse.

My books are better thought about than read. They're insanely dull and unreadable.But they're wonderful to talk about and think about, to dip in and out of, to hold, to have on your shelf.

Yo, bredren, we be the illest, ' went my proclamation. 'We be the dopest, ' Anand would follow. 'Our tunes are going to be good, ' Nishant would finish with.

If you're afraid of butter, use cream.

With happiness comes intelligence to the heart.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to the human potential.

What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!

You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.

There's an older generation that feels like they know what the future should be. And then there's your generation that may have an idea of what the future should be, but that could evolve.

Be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.

It doesn't take skill to stand in a place were no bullets find you, or to fire into the dark and hit a man you didn't see.