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.

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.

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 cure is as simple as this: Live your words and live your belief system.

Ask with urgency and passion.

At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface.

Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.

I will fight for America till the day I drop.

Fame and success are very different things.

God improvises. Man systematizes.

Never lose sight of an antelope for a dashing squirrel.

Precise adaptation, with each part finely honed to perform a definite function in an optimal way, can only lead to blind alleys, dead ends, and extinction.