There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.

Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people.

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

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say

An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty

Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.

We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language.

I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.

Humans change themselves through technology.

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

There are two ways of opening the eyes of people. The first is by way of preaching the Word of God and the second is prayer

If a man has any genuine talent he should be ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate it to the full.

I've been fortunate enough to travel the world because of my career, but the downside has been spending long spells apart from my daughters.

Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)

Everything I've done I've just fallen into.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

Iran - the world's leading sponsor of terrorism - is close to having nuclear weapons.

All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.

Getting rich begins with the right mindset, the right words and the right plan.

A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.