When you talk to a sympathetic mind about technology, gender, age, and experience disappear completely, and soon you’re one-on-one with the topic at hand.

On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.

Just Do What you feel, and Don't you fool yourself

Our feelings are best articulated with words.

Don't thank me for telling the truth when it would have been mercy to lie to you.

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.

Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.

Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest.

Theory without data is myth: data without theory is madness.

What was true then and what is true now is that we create technology so others can create more technology.

When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.