What North Europe thinks of as its history is actually quite provincial and of limited interest. Different sorts of Christian killing each other, and that's about it.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.

Why should things be easy to understand?

Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.

Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem.

Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.

A screaming comes across the sky.

The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only twenty-three years of listening to the desert. A desert which has no voice.

It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.

Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

I came in as an engineer and worked on artificial intelligence at Google. I worked on related sites and matching advertising to queries with some of our earliest ads.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

We need the books that affect us like a disaster

Rhode Island has become a second home to me after being involved in its cultural life for over 61 years. I look upon it as a privilege to be inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame.

All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?

The furnace which melts gold, also hardens clay. Before blaming thy fate, therefore, find whether thou art gold or clay.

You learn so much from taking chances, whether they work out or not. Either way, you can grow from the experience and become stronger and smarter.

You should always be aware that your head creates your world.