In the six degrees of separation, not all degrees are equal.

That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.

Contagiousness is an unexpected property of all kinds of things.

The success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.

I am forever walking upon these shores, Betwixt the sand and the foam, The high tide will erase my food prints, And the wind will blow away the foam, But the sea and the shore will remain forever.

Nothing you could do would make me send you away. Nothing.

Create a tomorrow that has more than just one day in it.

Cut lose your ties with expectation. Your dreams are charlatans, your memories, stalemating quarks. Listen only to the pull of your atoms and follow the discordant hum of your personal entropy.

If we remain humble and hungry, we can win.

Jazz is about freedom within discipline.

And this is the beginning of the end.

And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.

Consistency breeds familiarity, familiarity breeds confidence, and confidence breeds sales.

My life is just a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents.