The only hope for social networking sites from a business point of view is for a magic formula to appear in which some method of violating privacy and dignity becomes acceptable.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.

People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.

When we ask people to live their lives through our models, we are potentially reducing life itself. How can we ever know what we might be losing?

enduring at the time played in his formulation of the test.

Hope is the privilege of the weak.

How slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory functions?

Don't ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It's too short, and you're too special.

The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.

You now have permission to be strong and healthy and calm and relaxed. There's no place else to go. There's nothing else to do.

It’s mentally exhausting, feeling bad about something you can do nothing about.

They did is sent me down Clearwater, Florida, and they said to me, Jessica, I need you to make Jim Bakker feel better.

[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it.

[On the Netherlands:] There is not a richer or more carefully tilled garden spot in the whole world than this leaky, springy little country.

Every movie I do is challenging for me. There is some element of imaginative that you wouldn't have in a typical movie.