[It is a] well-known fact that the likely contacts of two individuals who are closely acquainted tend to be more overlapping than those of two arbitrarily selected individuals.

To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us.

The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community.

Cooperate on move one; thereafter, do whatever the other player did the previous move.

Do you know that all great spurts in...progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed system?

A thorough understanding of game theory, should dim these greedy hopes. Knowledge of game theory does not make one a better card player, businessman or military strategist.

The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of unambiguous measure to this "flow".

The outcome of a non-constant-sum game may be dictated by the individual rationality of the respective players without satisfying a criterion of collective rationality.

A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions.

It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy.

The outstanding feature of behavior is that it is often quite easy to recognize but extremely difficult or impossible to describe with precision.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

Great souls know the strength of their spirit.

In a boom, envy; in a bust, anger.

We put this 15-year old girl on the cover of a fashion magazine, and tell everyone she is the epitome of sexual perfection, but we jail anyone who touches her for another three years.

We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry.

Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.

Wakolda or The German Doctor is a very intimate story. It is the story of a teenage girl and the way she falls in love with a monster. It is the story of a hunt and of a seduction.

At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.

Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

Perhaps when we face our maker, we will not be asked, 'How many positions did you hold,' but rather, 'How many people did you help?