Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive.

I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving.

Do not be afraid to fail, but also, do not be afraid to succeed.

I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.

There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.

The average American doesnt realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge...but their persistence at something.

In selecting any goal you should focus on the reason – without a compelling reason your resolve will weaken.

The most formidable adversary of evil is a persistent man with a loud conscience.

Our knowledge of dynamic processes is necessarily inferior to our ability to describe stationary conditions.

Sometimes it's easy to get caught up in life and take things for granted.

Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.

A woman in love is helpless.

I don't think the emergence of a superhuman intelligence would be at all catastrophic but much more likely to be beneficial - just as long as we don't start trying to interfere with it!

I don't much care to watch myself. There are still probably 50 or 60 episodes of 'Frasier' that I have never seen.

For eight years, I was sleeping with the president, and if that doesn't give you special access, I don't know what does!

Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity.