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.

The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.

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.

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

You can fall in love but can't escape love alive.

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat But to lie there - that's a disgrace.

Wether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you.

The deeper inner teachings are presented to very few because few would understand them. The exoteric teachings are presented to many.

But Tolkien doesn't ask the question: What was Aragorn's tax policy?

The real secret about diplomats is that we're trained to say something, when there is nothing to say, and to say nothing when there is something to say.

Live in such a way, that if someone speaks badly of you no one would belive it. Playing dress-up begins at age five and never truly ends.

We all have insecurities but you have to know you’re beautiful.

Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).

All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.