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

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.

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

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.

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.

I was a black singer with a white voice, a perfect pop voice.

And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather aremetaphors.

I'm a fatalist. I believe things happen for a reason, that you attract people and situations that are meant to fulfil your path.

Cheer up, children, I am all right.

There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others.

I feel like winning a world championship was a hurdle I had to get over.

It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.

I don't want to die but I ain't keen on living either

Have I mentioned that I hate it when you're right?", she asked instead. Alanna shook her head. "No, I don't believe you have. As far as I could tell, you never thought I was right.

If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.