enduring at the time played in his formulation of the test.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.

People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.

When we ask people to live their lives through our models, we are potentially reducing life itself. How can we ever know what we might be losing?

It will not suffer if it doesn’t get what it wants.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

But some people, and especially very young people, don’t think anything’s worth believing unless it’s hard to believe.

The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity.

Silence ensures that history repeats itself.

If you'll promise not to cry, Baby, I will kiss you by-and-by—Maybe! Though you're six feet three, You will always be Nothing but a Baby, dear, to me.

HIV is not a death sentence. It doesn't mean life's over. It means that life's going to be different, but you still get to have those moments that people who don't have HIV experience.

The immoderate cannot laugh moderately.

[There] is something fundamentally unpatriotic in the yearning to fundamentally transform your country.

Violence is the first means and the last resort to pacify a people, and thus is something we need to continue to consider after the gunfire has ended.

If you so choose, each day can be filled with even more joy than the one before. If you so choose, even the most seemingly random events can work in your favor.