Life is short ... so why waste it doing something dumb?

What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?

With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we'll make it a thing of the past.

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

There is no justice in following unjust laws.

No, you can’t force other people to change. You can, however, change just about everything else. And usually, that’s enough.

As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.

There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.

Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.

Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.

I don’t want to be happy. I just want to change the world.

Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?

You must now go home, where everything -- you can be quite sure -- will be falser than here....You must go now. You'll leave by the right, through the alley....

Seek respect, not attention. It lasts longer.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.

Negative feelings can either lead to sinking into oneself and disappearing, or they can make you angry and want to prove that you're worthy to be in the conversation.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.

Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences.

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.