Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.

When we ask people to live their lives through our models, we are potentially reducing life itself. How can we ever know what we might be losing?

enduring at the time played in his formulation of the test.

It will not suffer if it doesn’t get what it wants.

What are you waiting for tomorrow to do? To get done? To achieve? To start? Where your good intentions are disconnecting from the actions you should do for the things you desire?

I will not fear for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

All men are warriors. And life for everything in our universe is nothing but war.

You are God's dream with skin on

A magician is an actor playing the part of a magician.

Beauty is no accomplishment on its own. It's what you do with it.

I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.

Stop it now and take control. Write this on a card and pin it up where you can see it... MY THOUGHTS CONTROL MY LIFE!

When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.

When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.