Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good time to make backups of our civilization.

Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?

Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

Everybody wants to disown neocon strategy, including the neocons, because that strategy never worked. Still, it was, in point of fact, a strategy. Nobody else has one.

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex.

If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy.

I trust my wife's judgement... That's what Philippe says about Granny, just before all hell breaks loose.

You are your own best friend. Listen to yourself more often than someone else.

Dreams are like commercials, but her dreams are picture perfect.

So here is the Great Society. It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when nobody in this country is poor.

So there is nothing to be proud of these worldly possessions. What you are to be proud of, or to be conscious of is your spirit. Spirit is the only thing that can kindle another spirit.

I really, really fear head injuries. But when people hit their heads in movies or fall down - I can't stop laughing.

The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.

Recipe for a happy marriage: My wife and I always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.

Ultimately, I consider people to be more important than computers.

Earmarks are supposed to be bad. But they don't increase spending.