My best ideas almost always come from winding up in unexpected places and stumbling across things I never could have imagined in advance.

If you have a lot of fans, you have a powerful soapbox, but you still have to have something to say when you're on that soapbox if you want to make a real difference.

If some dude I'd never heard of managed to broadcast a platitude like that to the whole globe, I'd probably just feel like I was being spammed.

What puts me in a vulnerable state? Beauty, wonder, surprise, mystery. Stuff like that.

I'm very active in pushing for net neutrality and an open Internet. There are countless other causes I support personally and privately, but I try to keep my public activism fairly focused.

There's no hope of people paying attention to your music video if you don't let others use it.

Actually, here is something I'm passionate about that, looking around me, seems like the world at large must not care about as much as I do: craft.

I can have fairly crippling self-criticism. It doesn't really put me in a vulnerable state, I just get glum and intolerable, but it certainly is a vulnerability.

I like shooting things in single takes. You have to rely on the idea itself to carry the full weight; you're always watching the idea, not the filmmaking.

It's the good old paradox of democracy. We are individually pretty small drops in the bucket, but collectively we are all powerful.

Everyone loves the idea of internet fast enough that HD movies download in seconds, but if only the telecoms or their partners get to use the high speeds, it's not the internet: It's glorified cable.

Great Leaders develop through a never ending process of self-study, self-reflection, education, training, and experience

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.

You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.

I'm a total junk food-er.

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

When Spring is old, and dewy windsBlow from the south, with odors sweet,I see my love, in shadowy groves,Speed down dark aisles on shining feet.

The best show on television is Red Sox baseball. Everything else sucks.

I think it would have been much better if Newton had contemplated how the apple got up there in the first place!

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

I don't tend to get girls as fans. I just get all the young guys and weirdos.