Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.

People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.

When we ask people to live their lives through our models, we are potentially reducing life itself. How can we ever know what we might be losing?

enduring at the time played in his formulation of the test.

It will not suffer if it doesn’t get what it wants.

One does what one is

Thoughts can be easily expressed by words but feeling are very hard to express with words.

Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).

The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.

A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.

No one's walking around here perfect. Everyone's gonna make mistakes. That's part of how you learn.

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.

The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.