Do not be afraid to fail, but also, do not be afraid to succeed.

I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving.

I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.

There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.

The average American doesnt realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge...but their persistence at something.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows.

If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.

Tis not that dieing hurts us so- tis living- hurts us more.

The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required reading for anyone who loves short fiction.

Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.

The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct

Some people, when they're called before the police, like nothing better than to spill everything, fact and fiction alike, hoping to create a good impression.

Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity.

There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.