When I wasn't sure what the word "charisma" meant, I met Steve Jobs, and then I knew.

Artificial Intelligence is whatever hasn't been done yet.

Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it, the user or the developer (programmer or engineer).

You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you've reached that point, you can only shift the burden around.

How can you hide from what never goes away?

Novelty has a way of intensifying memory. The less often you do something, the deeper the memory burrows in.

If people knew what they were missing, they would give up everything they have to achieve it.

There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.

We believe trial judges confronted with disruptive, contumacious, stubbornly defiant defendants must be given sufficient discretion to meet the circumstances in each case.

There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.

There are hearts to gladden... kind words to say... gifts to be given... deeds to be done.

In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it . . . research.

Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.

Only an open mind is big enough to contain the secrets of the universe.