I believe if you work really hard and follow what you want to do in life that that combination - I believe in it. You need to take risks.

Imagine the potential of an emerging global brain.

We created computers as an extension of our brains, and now we're connecting through those computers and the Internet cloud as a way of expanding them.

The cool kids have co-opted all the neat stuff ? computers, gadgets, video games. Theres no such thing as a computer geek anymore.

In one of his books my father said, "Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse."

It's not the world wide web. It's the women wide web.

The beauty of a bright new day!

An institution theoretically devoted to providing comfort to those in need (the church) is in trouble because it has embraced the same pressure cooker we find everywhere else.

I'm just glad I've had these opportunities to be geeks in some really awesome movies.

In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.

I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.

The only thing they recognize is a buffet

the present is the merest flicker between the long long time past and the things that haven't yet happened but most assuredly will.

It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.

There appears to be no space outside the panoptican of commercial barbarism and casino capitalism.

A nation that turns away from prayer will ultimately find itself in desperate need of it.