Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.

I have seen the future, and it is still in the future.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.

Opportunities don't just happen. You create them

Let the romantic minds meet the romantic cities and after that the candle of romanticism shines on earth like a sun!

I live wherever you are cos honestly there's no better place to call home.

I've often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with the family or the company restricted because of the demands of an elected position.

Programming is much much harder than doing mathematics.

My wife and I went to a hotel where we got a waterbed. My wife called it the Dead Sea.

Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God!

I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.

Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp.

You get in a lot of trouble when you start putting fictitious numbers.