The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.

I have seen the future, and it is still in the future.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

Be honest with yourself, face your feelings and what they really mean, then you will be able to deal with them and move on.

God’s Word transforms you into someone who reflects His glory.

To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned

I'm always going to look and refer to things and remember things differently than perhaps a real or honest viewer can. I'm tainted with knowing too much. But I still very much love it.

You never know what someone is dealing with behind closed doors. You only know what you see or what you think you see.

Sometimes it is good to fall down so that we can see whether we honourably get up or disgracefully turn into a miserable reptile!

Do they give Pulitzers for tweets yet?

I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.

If you dislike the answers you’re getting from life, try asking better questions.

Plot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development.