Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.

I have seen the future, and it is still in the future.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

Dad thinks I'm ready to fly around the country as the Ambassador of Hope, but Mom thinks I'm a frail little bird with broken wings.

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.

In your heart, create a world full of flowers and love.

We all exist as part of a wonderful stream of life.

A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.

If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

A bomb under the West car park at Twickenham on an international day would end fascism in England for a generation.

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

A stand-up comedian will never be the life of a party. Instead, he will be the guy who is standing at a corner and observing people.