University degrees are a bit like adultery: You may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable.

Purpose is more important than the process that leads there.

When the heart craved something so forcefully, then reason became nothing but helpless observer.

We are not committed to this or that. We are committed to the nothing in-between, whether we know it or not.

In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

People are not machines, but in all situations where they are given the opportunity, they will act like machines.

I was born not too far from Minneapolis, so it's nice to come back and visit.

Take one, and you cannot take the other. But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk — the way of hard truths or the way of fine lies?

Most people know that there is this partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft on search.

a king can only work with his best tools.