The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.

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.

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters but telegrams.

God is a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive.

Start with a small product in lab environment and grow it!

It's important for me to have my family close.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together.

Greatness is largely a social accident, and almost always socially supported.

Don't be attracted to easy paths because the paths that make your feet bleed are the only way to get ahead in life.

I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.