Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things.

The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.

There's not a single business model, and there's not a single type of electronic content. There are really a lot of opportunities and a lot of options and we just have to discover all of them.

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

Who has the data has the power.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.

Intuition is a trust that if we follow our heart, if we follow our love, joy and truth, the Whole becomes enriched.

Leadership has a price.

Whatever goal, man has reached is due to his originality plus his brutality

People never like me and I never like people

Every man at three years old is half his height

I am lucky. I am fortunate. I found the love of my life.

It's not about who is real to your face. It's about who stays real behind your back.

When the age is in, the wit is out