It will not suffer if it doesn’t get what it wants.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.

People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.

When we ask people to live their lives through our models, we are potentially reducing life itself. How can we ever know what we might be losing?

enduring at the time played in his formulation of the test.

Your life has purpose and meaning. Don't devalue yourself giving someone else meaning.

Tell me again how much you agree with me.

Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army - or outside the government and army.

Wrestlers Compete as Individuals, Yet the Sport Builds Comradery Like No Other.

There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.

When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.

There's a lot of people I'd like to write with, like Keith Urban or even as far out as Stevie Wonder.

The modern tradition of equating death with an ensuing nothingness can be abandoned. For there is no reason to believe that human death severs the quality of the oneness in the universe.

Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.

[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.