Hitler understood the demagogues' essential principle to teach or persuade is far more difficult than to stir emotion.

Socialization would be the most successful thing to bring mainstream audiences to online computers.

Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.

Take back the web because it is a situation that really isn't working for anyone.

The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire.

We have just decided we have to have everything for free. And I think we're starting to pay for it in terms of our mental states.

The most interesting thing about Google is its founders hated advertising.

Advertising always corrupts the goal of the search engine, which is to try to give you the most important stuff, not the stuff someone paid there to be there.

The best antidote to the disruptive power of innovation is overregulation.

When you pay for stuff, it has more of your interests in heart.

Starting with radio, starting with television, we got used to this idea of stuff being free as long as you just watch a few ads.

Even in peace there is war.

To really meet the mystery, we must be uncertain.

Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?

If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

No matter how hard the battle gets or no matter how many people DON'T believe in your dream,Never give up!

The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm -it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug.

I suppose the good artists, the righteous artists, somehow manage to be exuberant, and the embarrassed artist has this idea that everybody has to stop being so excited, which I find so distasteful.

Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

When people doubt your abilities, the greatest joy on earth is making them eat their words.