Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.

Chance favors the connected mind.

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.

Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water.

Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this programmable architecture didn’t appear for more than a hundred years.

Build a tangled bank.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

You must really love this guy, huh? I mean, to be crying as ugly as you are?

Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.

One day you're gonna ask that to the wrong girl who is really struggling and it's gonna be hurtful to them. And I hate it.

I never stopped reading.

One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them.

Regardless of what we say, it's what we do that reveals what we as a church or individual actually believe about God and His will for us.

Fear and guilt are your only enemies. If you let go of fear, fear lets go of you. If you release guilt, guilt will release you. How do you do that? By deciding to.

Acting was always a part and faucet of my life. It just comes very natural. I think it's a good thing.

I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet . . . So I call what I'm doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.