“Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.”

“Its not an academic question any more to ask whats going to happen to a cloud. People very much want to knowand that means theres money available for it. That problem is very much within the realm ...”

“Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.”

“the library is the last free space for the gathering and sharing of knowledge: Our attention cannot be bought and sold in a library. As a tradition barely a century and a half old in the United Sta...”

“There are two kinds of geniuses: the 'ordinary' and the 'magicians'. An ordinary genius is a fellow whom you and I would be just as good as, if we were only many times better. There is no mystery a...”

“The fractal structure nature has devised works so efficiently that, in most tissue, no cell is ever more than three or four cells away from a blood vessel. Yet the vessels and blood take up little ...”

“Sometimes you come to realize you understand something but you cant explain it to anyone, not even yourself. This is perhaps the most sacred kind of understanding.”

“The soul that knows it soul is sacred.”

“The spiritual soul is sacred.”