When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.

Chance favors the connected mind.

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water.

Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.

Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this programmable architecture didn’t appear for more than a hundred years.

Build a tangled bank.

After the leaves have fallen, we returnTo a plain sense of things. It is as ifWe had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.

You seemed so far away, " Miss Honey whispered, awestruck."Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings, " Matilda said. "It was wonderful.

Lie to yourself, not to someone else

I dealt with legal questions in the interest of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP and its members during the difficult years of struggle for the victory of the Movement.

I don't want to play in pain. I'm 25, it's my life.

Everyone gets the same twenty-four hours in a day, the difference is how you use it.

I miss theater. I miss living the arc of the character, from curtain to curtain, and I miss the immediate audience response.

I've hated cockroaches my entire life.Tweeting jokes about it helps me cope, in a way. I'm not as jumpy killing cave crickets as I used to be. I still jump plenty though.

You don't have to wear fur. They make such great fakes. There's no reason to kill an animal.

Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity ... at its height.