Recognize that there is a time to be left-brained and a time to be right-brained; a time to be efficient and a time to be creative; a time to work and a time to play.

With too little data, you won't be able to make any conclusions that you trust. With loads of data you will find relationships that aren't real... Big data isn't about bits, it's about talent.

Big data isn’t about bits, it’s about talent.

Many people assume that they can probably find many ways to save time. This is an incorrect assumption for it is only when you focus on spending time that you begin to use your time effectively.

There is a time to deliberate... and a time to act. Learn to recognize which is which, and act accordingly.

A habit is good if it helps you achieve your goal; it is bad if it hinders your achievement.

Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not.

Time is life. To waste your time is to waste your life.

The key to willpower is "want-power". If U want something strongly enough, U will find the discipline necessary to do it.

Many of us spend more time on the C's of life than on the A's of life. Don't allow trivial things to crowd out the important ones.

Time is more than just a work issue; it's also a life issue. The way you spend your time defines the life you life.

Stay humble as a writer: write on toilet paper.

But then again...perhaps the whole human race is cursed, and I'm simply in the lower echelon and therefore lose everything first.

Scholars, I plead with you, Where are your dictionaries of the wind, the grasses?

We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I think that is the most ethical way to reduce our population.

It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom

I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach

Be talented enough to make it and stupid enough to keep trying.

No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.

To do a sequel is so weird, you don't really think about it.