The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

Chance favors the connected mind.

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.

Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water.

Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.

Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this programmable architecture didn’t appear for more than a hundred years.

Build a tangled bank.

It is dehumanizing, demeaning and humiliating when you fail or refuse to acknowledge or respond to a Good Morning greeting. #Mannerism

It's cool to be different and just be who you are and shock people in a good way.

If we had to accept the idea of an independent creator, the explanations given in [several Buddhist texts] which completely refutes the existence per se of all phenomena, would be negated.

I've always made my own clothes since I was a little girl. I was a terrible sewer, but I was always cutting and customising.

I can't be easy. It's not my nature. But it's my nature to love you.

One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.

Non-co-operation is not a movement of drag, bluster or bluff.

I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature.

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

Of all the wonders that the world had to offer, only art promised immortality.