Who has the data has the power.

The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.

There's not a single business model, and there's not a single type of electronic content. There are really a lot of opportunities and a lot of options and we just have to discover all of them.

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

There is no fear in faith.

It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed at home.

You will never solve problems unless you face them head on.

I don't like going to the gym.

When it comes to killing my sin, I don't wait for the miracle, I act the miracle.

To fine that light within--that's the genius of poetry.

Frying chicken always makes me feel a little better about life.

Documentary has been a way for me to establish myself as a filmmaker. It's my way of proving that I have a language, that I can say something through film.

Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery.

There are no mistakes in life!