Just in the past couple years, we've seen digital tools display skills and abilities that ... eat deeply into what we human beings do for a living.

The world is one big data problem.

Sometimes ones man's creativity is another machine's brute force analysis

Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes

There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limitations, yes, but don't limit yourself with false modesty.

Life is nothing but a transient dream dancing at the tip of a leaf called time.

I do a lot better if I sit around and think about a character for a couple of months.

China can keep her troops on the external frontiers of Tibet, and Tibetans will pledge to accept the appropriate form of union with China.

It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.

The client is not always right.

What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?

The smoke and the fire and the speed, the action and the sound, and everything that goes together, [the steam engine] is the most beautiful machine that we ever made, there's just nothing like it.

Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early 90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that.