You can't throw money at the Internet to make it work - it really is all about the quality of the content.

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature.

Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most science-y sports, because it literally is just a ball and a surface and objects to knock down.

When you hang around a lot of comedians long enough, you realize there's a certain gene, in every comedian. It's why we get hyper-analytical about things.

I do seem like the kind of guy who'd be obsessive about Rubik's Cubes.

No matter what tricks you use or what decisions you make, go easy on yourself as someone who's on a never-ending quest for improvement.

Steal moments of happiness if you have to, and then collect them until they are the dominant images in your psyche.

I almost think of nerd brains as rattlesnake venom; like, you can milk it. You can milk the pulpy venom out of the nerd brain and use it for good if you want to.

Humans cannot produce viable offspring with our closest animal cousin: the chimpanzee. We cannot impregnate a chimp. So you know what that means? No condoms.

I've gone from being bullied by jocks as a kid to being bullied by nerds as an adult.

Water is not frightened of the ocean. Light is not frightened of the Sun.

A hero is a person who, without a second thought, simply does the right thing because his conscience cannot live with any other choice.

I'd like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent.

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

I think the terrifying thing is you see all these people who go to the same cosmetic surgeon, and they end up, after a while, looking like everyone.

I don't want to get high with my kids, because then everything is different forever. That's so stupid, I think.

Here [in Wonder Boys] I had this group of characters where you didn't know which were the important ones or what direction they were heading.

I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.

As you all know by now, this is the 51st annual Academy Awards. Two hours of sparkling entertainment spread out over a four-hour show.

I'm a man. I lived it and I'm not afraid to die but when I die I'm going to paradise and I'm not worried.