The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road.

Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for a visit.

A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.

The human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end.

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.

Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.

Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.

contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for the last half-century.

Couldn't a woman be happy doing a great many things, just as a man could?

We are the instruments of genius, yet more the rhythm and less the drum as each expanding beat arises.

With this film, 'Need For Speed, ' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.

I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.

I never shot nobody I didnt have to.

I have a rule: I want the pilot flying me up in the air at 30,000 feet to make more than a guy working at Taco Bell.

The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.

God is more interested in developing your character than keeping you comfortable.

I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.