My basic belief is you need to ride the horse in the direction that it's going.

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.

A good story is [a] kind of irritant. You read it, then you cannot stop thinking about it. Eventually, your mind and heart encyst about it, and what occurs is a pearl of the soul.

That’s why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too – their dreams and their scars and their stories.

I feel like a Bull Moose.

Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

No matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me

Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty, a grace wholly gratuitous.

This team just wasn't good enough today, but they had the unity I always wanted. To have an American team like this has always been a dream of mine.

You're making a big mistake if you think that you can beat me.

I resent Washington telling states, or the residents of those states, what to do and what to think.

Socially, I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people.