The first step is always to succeed in becoming surprised - to notice that there is something funny going on.

if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history.

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

Really good ideas are always good beyond what you anticipated originally.

Computers make people stupid.

We can't share the earth with pure evil anymore than we can share the earth with smallpox.

I think the print media have failed to make the most of their opportunity. They may all disappear because they are approaching things in the wrong way.

Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't.

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?

The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed.

If you can know how to convert your time by investing it, then you can buy greatness with it.

He can transform the incapability in you to do what the capables, even together, cannot do.

You can't change the past.....why bother?...linger too much in the thought, you only get pulled down....Tomorrow is yet to come...GET PREPARED, that is one day you can change.

You will know as much of God, and only as much of God, as you are willing to put into practice.

When you feel good about the work you're doing, that's what's important, not the budget or anything like that. If you're happy about the actors you're working with, that's what's important.

Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for over 30 years.

I started conducting lessons and I realized that this is actually something I like doing.

I never liked anyone who didn't have a temper. If you don't have a temper, you don't have any passion.

Life is about coming to terms with the mistakes made. Learning to live with them even when they cut soul deep.

I fundamentally believe that in the moral balance of the human race, we right ourselves. If we feel like the ship's keel is off, we find a way to steer ourselves through the storm repeatedly.