Life is not a tour of gas stations.

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.

Never accept what you don’t like to do.

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.

I would question any fee. Let them know you're comparison shopping among several lenders.

Americans are not brought up with meter. They're not brought up with poetry. If you try to get them to recite, they're too embarrassed.

The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws.

The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it, so that its real meaning becomes clear through a series of endless anagrams.

I do not need a reason to be angry with God.

There are elements of democracy in votes here and there in America. But in the actual structure of the government, we're a representative republic.

I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to grow a beard, to wear black 'at' people. I didn't just want to play Hamlet, I wanted to be Hamlet.