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

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.

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.

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

We were going to get Ahmed back. And Rahim back. And Shazad. And Delila. And all the others who had been captured. And we were going to end this.

The second day, I watched you suffer through one of your nightmares, but this one was worse than I’d seen before. You called out another man’s name.

Happiness often sneaks through doors you didn't even know were open

Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.

My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

Don't worry about where you are. Watch the first derivative.

You can almost read any emotion through someone's eyes.

Children blessings seem, but torments are.