The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked on the principle that people who don't already know don't belong

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.

I have seen the future, and it is still in the future.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

I was going to become a human sand burger.

No man can be happy without a friend nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

Is dishwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.

One of the strangest things about being an actor is that people you don't know feel that they are allowed to comment on your hair, body, clothes, relationships.

We all know we're going to die. We're all circling the drain. Some of us are closer than others. I'm 90, I know I'm closer to the drain than most people.

(The raindrops) played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow.

People will believe absurd things - in the 19th century and now.

The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's how are your parents doing.

The young generation of today is globally connected. They want to live in an equitable and efficient India. We have to be ready for this, and work for this.