The cool kids have co-opted all the neat stuff ? computers, gadgets, video games. Theres no such thing as a computer geek anymore.

Imagine the potential of an emerging global brain.

We created computers as an extension of our brains, and now we're connecting through those computers and the Internet cloud as a way of expanding them.

I believe if you work really hard and follow what you want to do in life that that combination - I believe in it. You need to take risks.

In one of his books my father said, "Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse."

It's not the world wide web. It's the women wide web.

Life isn't filled with perfect harmony. The world is littered with bum notes, off-key moments and tuneless episodes. The trick is to find your own music, to ignore the discord and sing your own tune.

The more a child is abused, the more the child uses his abilities to anticipate, manage, prevent, dismantle, and challenge the abusing ways of his parents.

Good thing we weren't here when this happened, " Fred added. "We'd be pancakes - DEAD ones!

I remember lying down for a nap one day at about 4:00 and walking up at 11:00 the next morning.

At the back of my life's horizon, where the dreamings of past lives crowd.

There are books that a writer undertakes because she wants to go on a journey, and there are journeys a writer undertakes because she wants to write a book.

Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

How many students ... were rendered callous to ideas, and how many lost the impetus to learn because of the way in which learning was experienced by them?

I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.

SafeTrack - I keep saying this - is not going to fix Metro. It's a speeded up track work program, compressing three years of already planned work on the track bed into about a year.