An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.

Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening.

We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us.

First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart.

The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

None of us know our real names.

Run well and win in this race of life by converting your time into added values and products.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

You have a feeling when you're recording, like, 'This is gonna translate really well, ' and when you see it live, and it kind of proves that, that's an amazing feeling.

I went through six years of battles on health care because I didn't have $100 million worth of advertising saying how it would never work.

The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

If, as Steven King once wrote, 'Valleys are the dimples on the face of the earth,' then Silicon Valley is undoubtedly the deepest, most sparkling dimple of them all.

Mud, rubbish and dirt are man's companions all his life; shouldn't they be precious to him, and isn't one doing man's service to remind him of their beauty?

No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity.

What you did in the past is how you got to today. What you do today is how you will get to the future.

I wanted to be a part of the downtown renaissance.