Take back the web because it is a situation that really isn't working for anyone.

Socialization would be the most successful thing to bring mainstream audiences to online computers.

Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.

The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire.

We have just decided we have to have everything for free. And I think we're starting to pay for it in terms of our mental states.

The most interesting thing about Google is its founders hated advertising.

Advertising always corrupts the goal of the search engine, which is to try to give you the most important stuff, not the stuff someone paid there to be there.

The best antidote to the disruptive power of innovation is overregulation.

When you pay for stuff, it has more of your interests in heart.

Starting with radio, starting with television, we got used to this idea of stuff being free as long as you just watch a few ads.

There's always going to be a tradeoff between trolling and anonymity, and I guess that's the way life will be. And you can manage it, but you can't cure it.

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

Dont turn your face all the stars are out longing you.

Here and there a man respected the operator. Instinctively the man felt in him a glowing resentment of something he had not the courage to resent.

MOTHER TIME: The past is always with us, dear, for better or worse. It is what it is and you can't change it. All you can do is learn how to live with it in the present.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

Pessimism does win us great happy moments.

I start phone calls at 4 A.M. to cheer people up. The housebound, people in the hospital. People who, after decades, still can't get over what happened 10 or 15 years ago.

I just want to say thank you to everyone who watched and tuned in and loved my evil gayness.

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different.