Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water.

Chance favors the connected mind.

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.

Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.

Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this programmable architecture didn’t appear for more than a hundred years.

Build a tangled bank.

Religion is a light bulb, created by man to help him to see in the dark.

Death is not the end of one's life rather than the beginning of another ( bad or nice) life.

I don't do facials or any of that stuff, but my workout regime does tend to depend on whether I have to take my top off in my next film because otherwise I know I'm too heavy.

Think like a publisher, not a marketer.

[Donald] Trump is not going to win... He's losing to Hillary [Clinton] in the latest polling.

Ordinary people need to lead and not sit there and think that governments are going to spoon-feed them and look after them and look after the country, because they won't.

The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families in other places and times.

War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.

Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the Spiritual in the human being to the Spiritual in the universe.

We trust Hillary Clinton, my wife and I, we trust her with the most important thing in our life.