“All of a sudden, weve lost a lot of control, he said. We cant turn off our internet; we cant turn off our smartphones; we cant turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now...”

“I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.”

“I really, really wanted to be successful in my life just based on me and my mind aloneI didnt ever want it to be an equation that amounted to a result coming from my brain plus something else.”

“I acquired a central ability that was to help me through my entire career: patience. I'm serious. Patience is usually so underrated. I mean, for all these projects, from third grade all the way to ...”

“As soon as he said it was okay to do engineering, that really freed me up. My psychological block was really that I didn't want to start a company. Because I was just afraid. In business and politi...”

“Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.”

“God can use the jawbone of an ass!”

“Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world... We then begin to grow as never before. And once we are on this road, happiness cannot be far away.”

“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. ...”

“It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you.It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.It's not a weakness.It's your best strength.”

“No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.”

“The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.”

“For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become children, fettered under watchful eyes, co...”

“To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.”

“We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from govern”