You can create art and beauty with a computer.

I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine.

Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.

You can’t argue with facts. You’re not entitled to your own facts.

[Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages, behaviour, and desires.

At the core of Silicon Valley is a passion for 'yes.'

Find a way to delight in all students. Look for the best, expect the best, and find something in each child [you] can treasure.

We designed Google to be the kind of place where the kind of people we wanted to work here would work for free.- Urs Hölzle

As Colin was starting to drift into the twilight he could feel blood pouring out of his head

I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.

Mother is the home we come from. She is nature, soil, ocean.

Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit.

I love my shoulders; they're strong. I like the way they move, and I like the way they look in clothes.

Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.

I try to always have flowers in the house. I have a florist in Chinatown, and they deliver orchids every two weeks. I like living with living things.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.

The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.