Whatever came to him was good. It was life. It was knowledge.

This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night.

Of course imagination is the beginning of creation. Without imagination there can be no creation.

There was no need to hurry that future—yet the length of his own youth pressed upon him. Whatever he was to do next he wanted to begin now. But how to begin and on what?

Wandering is never waste, dear boy, ' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation.

To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.

Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life flowed and eddied, but he was not part of it.

You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.

My troubles are over, and I am finally home.

Fate's such a shrewish thing.

There's nothing like space and the ability to make unlimited amounts of noise at any time, especially in San Francisco.

Barack Obama is extremely smart.

It's very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it's done by the seat of your pants. There's a kind of nervy element about it.