The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.

Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place.

I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people.

Computer scientists are the historians of computing.

I'm on Facebook and Twitter, and occasionally I will tweet something. Somehow my problem is that I don't think I have anything interesting to tweet about.

People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.

My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

The most reliable components are the ones you leave out.

I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.

I started working occasionally for my father when I was around six. The first skill I learned was how to join a plug to a wire.

Well, I got to have a project. I'm not a blue-sky guy at all. I'd never let anybody like me loose in a company.

What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.

The more righteous God appeared, the more resentful I became.

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

The Spirit of God first imparts love; He next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing we have in a good many of our churches at the present time.

You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.

I love music because it's so fecking brilliant. Music is math, and math is the structure of everything and pretty much perfect.

An integral approach acknowledges that all views have a degree of truth, but some views are more true than others, more developed, more evolved, more adequate.

I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul trembling in awe before the mystery of life.

Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.

Someone once I asked my son Cruz, 'When's your birthday?' and he told them, 'It's just after Fashion Week!'