Since the 1940s, we've been saying there are no differences, we [humans] are all identical. We're going to know at year end if that is true.

Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons' in our house. And all we've got is a Roomba.

The thing that keeps me most awake is the desire and curiosity to learn more.

There's a creativity, a power, an energy, an ability to do things unlike any other period in history. It's a little bit like sitting in the Renaissance, but multiplied a thousand-fold.

If I had a wand and could put statues in different places, one of the statues would go to a man who just died, called Norman Borlaug, who came up with the Green Revolution.

It's not completely inconceivable that someday you'll be able to download your own memories.

It's such an extraordinary time to be alive that you just don't want to miss it. I mean, it's a really neat historical period.

There is so much extraordinary opportunity if you're curious, if you're interested.

The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.

Try to live without something digital - without digital code for about two hours, very hard to do if you're awake.

It is important that New York, in addition to its fashion, and finance, and tourism, and communications infrastructure, also begin developing venture infrastructure that's for real.

Simon, she'd learned, was a man who studied people. He learned their weaknesses as a way of protecting himself.

The absence of a message sometimes is a presence of one.

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

His eyes went soft and silver as she spoke. “Zhe shi jie shang, wo shi zui ai ne de,” he whispered. She understood it. In all the world, you are what I love the most.

I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.

Even when it was easy, music's patterning shaped the emotions . . . Music proclaimed an orderly universe, promised a better place.

The foundation of a strong economy and job creation begins with providing every child in America with the best possible education, including students with disabilities.

The primary things that people do on the Facebook is they use it to share with their friends and the people around them and their community, and they use it to keep in touch with people.

Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.