The transistor was a small plastic unit that would take us from a world of static bricks piled on top of each other to a world where everything was interactive.

LEGO has essentially taken the concrete block, the building block of the world, and made it into the building block of our imagination.

We want to encourage a world of creators, of inventors, of contributors. Because this world that we live in, this interactive world, is ours.

Instead of having to program, to wire, to solder, littleBits allow you to program using very simple intuitive gestures.

Everyone is creative and everyone is a techie.

We want to make every single interaction in the world into a ready-to-use brick.

How do I know what I think until I see what I say?

Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs.

At the end of the day, if pride is your greatest strength, turn it into vanity.

Anybody who really knows about the TV business knows that it would be impossible to just march in one day and say to your colleagues and bosses, 'Oh yes, I'm hosting my own show.'

To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another.

I'm concerned about how and why there is no gun control.

Words can crush things that are unseen.

I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008.

I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.

We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.