Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.

People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.

When we ask people to live their lives through our models, we are potentially reducing life itself. How can we ever know what we might be losing?

enduring at the time played in his formulation of the test.

It will not suffer if it doesn’t get what it wants.

Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.

Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.

What a glorious God!

One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.

You can't make everybody happy.

You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.

Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell the story, and when it's told, there's another one to tell.

Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.

Pictures were made to entertain; if you want to send a message, call Western Union.

My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.