When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.

I have seen the future, and it is still in the future.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.

There are only two things to be done when a general is angry: One is to get behind the furniture and pretend one is not there

I'm always trying to learn and grow, so my diet has, over the years, evolved.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

What we humans think we know is nothing compared to what we need to believe to numb the fear and pain.

Fix me up with a mannequin, just remember I like blondes. I'll be the life of the party, even when I'm dead and gone.

Fear and creativity don't mix well.

I love when scenes are intentionally and meticulously planned so we feel like this is a handcrafted scene that only works in this moment and this movie, and that's the way I approach my films.

Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it

I get and read an enormous number of first novels.

Everything must be organized in the most rational way. The state won't accept excessive prices.