Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair.

Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them

If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid.

Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium.

My opinion changes rapidly - one minute I can think it is very good and the next time I look at it, I see all the flaws and weaknesses therein.

If you want to get a meaningful result: create something very complex, and then simplify it.

Although social media is a relatively new form of communication, it has become the primary way retailers and customers are interfacing.

No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.

My parents [are my hero]. They've helped me be who I am.

You know what they say, when one door closes, another Belvedere opens.

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

We've definitely cracked the technology. Now we're just trying to be able to produce the amount of fuels that we need to satisfy our own needs and then other people's needs.

Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.

Not only because the product wasn't a great product, but remember it took us five or six years to ship it. Then we had to sort of fix it. That was what I might call Windows 7.