Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.

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.

Why would you waste a second of your life, when that's one less second you get to live?

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

If you are trying to sell someone your idea and you can't even define it to yourself, then that is a problem.

The greatest fighter I ever saw

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.

I've never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.

Isn't it strange how much we know if only we ask ourselves instead of somebody else.

That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.