You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.

The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.

There's not a single business model, and there's not a single type of electronic content. There are really a lot of opportunities and a lot of options and we just have to discover all of them.

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

Who has the data has the power.

When anyone tells me I can’t do anything, I’m just not listening any more.

Except Him, whatever understood, O Bedil~ love made me forget.

For a novelist, no matter what, it's a complete work, even if it's not published. But if you write a screenplay, and it's not performed, then it's a sad and frustrating experience.

Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security.

I take what isn't mine and I covet other people's lives.

What you create doesn’t have to be perfect. So what if the eggs are greasy or the toast is burned? Don’t let fear of failure discourage you.

Music's cyclical. There's always that next generation that always comes along.

The most famous cricketers are too big to play county cricket.

I am the King's Fool. He is the King-In-Wating. Let him wait.

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.