At one point, CERN was toying with patenting the World Wide Web.

When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.

We mustn't forget we chose the name 'WWW' before there was even one line of code written. We could do that because the Internet as an infrastructure was already there.

Because I'm a synesthete I see characters in colors and I perceive a W as green.

If I sign up for Facebook and want my account destroyed, it is impossible. They keep tabs on you; there will always be a trace.

I'd like the reader to decide if he is willing to pay minute sums for content. I'd like the economics of web to be controlled between authors and readers, not advertiser.

To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites.

If you operate a TV or radio station, you have to have a license. It has nothing to do with fundamental freedom. It has to do with protection of the average citizen against abuses.

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.

human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.

There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people who enact a playfulness when it comes to the world of ideas.

I listen to a wide variety of music of all genres, but sometimes you just need a cheesy pop song.

A lot of times in movies, you see the "small town" people, being bowled over by this creative entity or this corporate ideal, and it's not true, at all.

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems.

I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really.

If you want to improve how you manage time - stop doing what doesn't need to be done!