When we ask people to live their lives through our models, we are potentially reducing life itself. How can we ever know what we might be losing?

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.

People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.

enduring at the time played in his formulation of the test.

It will not suffer if it doesn’t get what it wants.

Your education is important because with only a few words you can show an employer the depth of your potential.

Although enlightened people know that an extreme phobia wasn't a form of madness, hey could not help but regard it as odd.

Only rainbows after rain...The sun will always come again.

There are unquestionable violations of our Constitution.

I talked about the stuff so openly that people are able to connect and relate. I put everything out there [into the network], and if I'm having a bad time, people know about it.

I'm not a political artist in any way, but if an idea takes me somewhere or something is emotionally impactful, I find a way to make a painting that encapsulates it.

I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.

I would love to do more private concerts.

Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here.

When we are broken because of increased hardship, we simply have to trust in the goodness of God.