You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.

People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.

When we ask people to live their lives through our models, we are potentially reducing life itself. How can we ever know what we might be losing?

enduring at the time played in his formulation of the test.

It will not suffer if it doesn’t get what it wants.

If you swim with sharks, make sure you have the appetite of a whale.

Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.

Living on purpose requires us to find what we love fiercely, give it all we've got and then pass it on, as if it were a torch, to those who follow

The students always, always surprise me.

unless someone like you comes around, things will never change.

I think horror comedies tend to skew more comedy than horror, for the most part.

The sport [football] is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel... [The National Football League] now needs a guardian, not a CEO.

Like world describers before me, those mapmakers in the seventeenth centure, I had laid down my first faintly drawn border. With that one tentative mark, my world expanded by a few freeing degrees.

We are happy at the respect others pay our favorites, because we consider it a lively confirmation of our own choice, and as so much homage reflected on ourselves.

When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with life - like summer itself.