The universe is computing its own destiny.

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.

I have seen the future, and it is still in the future.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.

Grief helps us to relinquish the illusion that the past could be different from what it was.

As a woman I resent the fact that in golf if I have the highest score I'm the loser.

As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy.

If you don't embrace who you are and accept who you are, you won't be able to live a happy life.

The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included.

We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women.

There is relief coming. This is good for America. This means that we can lift the oppressive weight of the regulatory state. We can restore the Constitution.

Before I was famous, I already was the person that attracted and dealt with a lot of weirdos.