You've got to connect with the things that you love.

As a parent, I want my kids to have an optimistic outlook, and one that has hope, and that makes sense, where good does triumph over evil and it's not cynical, and it's not snarky.

I'm a middle-aged dad, which means I have no social time or life to speak of, and so I connect with my buddies with my Xbox.

Creativity is Inspiration having fun

We're so obsessed with [big] data, we forget how to interpret it.

All creative work has its greatest reality while it is still in a man's mind, before he begins to execute it.

There's a lot that's happened in my life that maybe I didn't want to happen, but I suppose it's led me to exactly where I am now.

I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination.

I ended up realizing that NASA was unlikely to get me into space, or get me to the moon or beyond, and I needed some other way to drive this.

A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.

I don't think I can play the game and sell myself.

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.