Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that.

The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.

There's not a single business model, and there's not a single type of electronic content. There are really a lot of opportunities and a lot of options and we just have to discover all of them.

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

Who has the data has the power.

I don't trust people without books or questions.

Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

I went to the Brit School for the performing arts in Croydon at 14, picking music as my main subject, and I'm so glad I did. I knew lots of people who'd gone there, so I always had my mind set on it.

Strangling is the most intimate way to kill someone.

It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a price upon Union and Liberty.

[A.J. Muste] was - he - I don't know what he finally came out believing in, but it was some kind of higher being.

I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system.

That which we expect of life is indeed all that it ever can be.

Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.