Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.

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.

If we don't think about our death until we die, how can we decide how we want to live?

Feelings are the language of the heart. Everything else is static noise.

You could harbor a man in your bed or your body, play on his nervous system like Paderewski at the keyboard, and not shift his brain one inch out of the concrete of dogma. (p. 5)

All art is based on non-conformity.

What I have said to people is that I've lived the American dream, because I have.

I definitely did not play myself. As the writer of the script, I have traits of all the characters. I can relate to all of the characters.

I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.

The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.