Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

I write to discover what I think.

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

I had a dream about you last night. We stopped telling each other about our dreams when we realized we were still inside them.

My mind is like a room where the door swings free in the breeze, and many visitors come and go and stay and vanish as they will.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do.

Life does not stand still. Where there is no progress, there is disintegration.

I've been really supported by my family and my wife. She really understands what I do, but it doesn't get any easier when you get away all the time and so I'm trying to find the balance.

Things are all made from nothing; hence their true source is nothing.

Society is secretly driven by sales

Every day, in every moment, you make the choice whether to love and harness the positive force - or not.

In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification of the passive observers