A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

As a society we should try to never inhibit another person's creativity. In people like myself, it's all we have.

The important thing is Burma needs to end the civil war and for this to happen both sides must want to end the war.

All rappers are princesses like me.

The whole creation is so tenderly balanced - this manifests the mastery of the Creator.

There are reasons, increasing in number and quality, to believe that the masses of ordinary galaxies may have been underestimated by a factor of 10 or more.

I've got the whole team to try and stop so I can't worry about one player.

Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.

The criterion of action is that todays work should not be deferred till the following day.

The world is crammed with delightful things

No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.