The Americas has been a relatively stable continent. The last truly new border we have is Panama in 1903.

Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons' in our house. And all we've got is a Roomba.

The thing that keeps me most awake is the desire and curiosity to learn more.

There's a creativity, a power, an energy, an ability to do things unlike any other period in history. It's a little bit like sitting in the Renaissance, but multiplied a thousand-fold.

If I had a wand and could put statues in different places, one of the statues would go to a man who just died, called Norman Borlaug, who came up with the Green Revolution.

It's not completely inconceivable that someday you'll be able to download your own memories.

It's such an extraordinary time to be alive that you just don't want to miss it. I mean, it's a really neat historical period.

Since the 1940s, we've been saying there are no differences, we [humans] are all identical. We're going to know at year end if that is true.

There is so much extraordinary opportunity if you're curious, if you're interested.

The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.

Try to live without something digital - without digital code for about two hours, very hard to do if you're awake.

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

Solace of Silencesurreal synapsesof a melancholy dronea dream per chanceshe dared not be alone...

I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

I feel that I have to say something in a song and that it's not just enough to lay down the music.

Your belief that you can do the thing gives your thought forces their power.

The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.

They've certainly grown, the Japanese. I mean grown in stature, playing-wise.

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?

I wanted to make photographs in which everything was so complex and detailed that you could look at them forever and never see everything.