The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving.

Do not be afraid to fail, but also, do not be afraid to succeed.

I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.

There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.

The average American doesnt realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge...but their persistence at something.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

apart from being suicidal I'm fine

Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

Thanks to Allah, who gives the palm!

My mother-in-law fell down a wishing well. I was amazed; I never knew they worked.

The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to the last-ditch aristocrats of Evelyn Waugh.

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.

Decaf is like masturbating with an oven mitt!

Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without the fear of nuclear war.

Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence