Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat.

It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

It's perfectly okay if you don't understand every single one of them. For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes, and you have to be 40 years old to get some of them.

I feel that my fans deserve to get something that's authentic and real.

Iran is celebrating the nuclear deal. The Iranians are going crazy. They're drinking non-alcoholic champagne and thinking about dancing. That's how excited they are.

I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.

Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.

I can't be No. 1 with an MVP trophy. I could be No. 1 with the championship ring and the championship trophy on my fireplace.

Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.

I tend to think of all new voices as a potential for failure, and all the people I've worked with before as the greatest potential for success.

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.