So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

Knowledge counts but common sense matters.

Whatever human endeavor we choose, as long as we live our truth, it is success.

A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.

Nothing wrong with making money.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered.

Dystopian, by definition, promises a darker story.

Not enough people realize the satisfaction you can get from really pushing yourself to the limits.

I look back on some of my early reviews of others, and realize to my chagrin that I've been as guilty as anybody else on that front.

Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.