To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them

Curation is more than packaging-it is to help readers [discern] what is important in the world.

You enrich people with creative resources, and over time, these Lego bricks that end up in their heads eventually build this enormous, incredible castle.

Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.

Be curious. Be constantly, consistently, indiscriminatel y curious.

I think you need to be a little in love—not necessarily in a romantic sense, although that helps—but to be in love with the reality of your own life.

Life is a continual process of arrival into who we are.

Because it is possible to create - creating one's self, willing to be one's self - one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever.

What is needed isn't merely tolerance but acceptance, wholehearted and unconditional.

Curation is a form of pattern recognition - pieces of information or insight which over time amount to an implicit point of view.

he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living...

I thought it wasn’t winning or losing but how you played the game that matters.”

Your choice of programming model also is your choice of programming model, so to speak.

It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.

A good plan will therefore include alternative actions, the choice between them being left open until the passage of time indicates which is feasible and which is not.

Infidels: Repent of Mohammedanism or burn in hell forever, throughout eternity.

A lot of people who work for WikiLeaks have the same instinct as me: If you are pushed you push back.

I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up

I've wanted to make movies ever since I was a kid. I knew that was my goal.

In general, the problem in a relationship is when the couple stagnate.

Unhappy is a people that has run out of words to describe what is going on.