The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.

I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving.

Do not be afraid to fail, but also, do not be afraid to succeed.

I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.

There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.

The average American doesnt realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge...but their persistence at something.

...no matter how much success you may experience in life, your eventual story - no offence intended - will be one of failure. Your bodily organs will fail, and you'll die.

I consider the law prohibiting the sharing of copies with your friend the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. It does not deserve respect.

Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our own consciousness strangely expands.

Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.

Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired

It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.

They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them.

You remind me of myself ” Bes continued “back when I was a young dwarf. You got a stubborn streak. When it comes to girl problems you’re clueless.

Though you lose all hope, there is still hope, and it loves to surprise.

The noiseless din that we have long known in dreams, booms at us in waking hours from newspaper headlines.