Innovation got hip. It got cool. I prefer the people who investigate the world out a brute sense of curiosity, a fundamental sense of play.

The future is going to be stranger and more various and more dynamic than anything people can imagine now. We will be extraordiarily tested. I wish us the best of luck!

Keeping the ship on course will be the first and most difficult order of business. Everyone is going to be piloting their organization through very high waters where things can change in an instant.

Now that everyone is reinventing and innovating, advantage goes to those who keep at it. We need to greet even success with humility.

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

People who have outrageous skills and abilities are the gold nuggets in the river bed of human history.

I am everything. I am nothing. I am powerful. I am forgotten.

The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

The songs that I've written about Africa, and AIDS and HIV and about the power of humanitarian love, those songs, I'm gonna sing them because I know that it's real.

Now, because of this big backdrop that we've given ourselves, these little personal, human details take on a whole new context and give us opportunities for comedy.

Scientists study physical things, then describe them; engineers describe physical things, then build them.

Marriage is forever. It's like cement.

Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.