Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.
Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm a scientist. Once I do something, I want to do something else.
Data isn't information. . . . Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between information and knowledge. What turns the gears in our brains isn't information, but ideas, inventions, and inspiration. Knowledge-not information-implies understanding. And beyond knowledge lies what we should be seeking: wisdom.
If you really want to know about the future, don't ask a technologist, a scientist, a physicist. No! Don't ask somebody who's writing code. No, if you want to know what society's going to be like in 20 years, ask a kindergarten teacher.
Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?
Give with a truly glad heart, for the sole purpose of the good it will do, and whatever you give shall return to you, multiplied, as if on wings, covered in sparkles.
You become a writer because you like to be alone in a room with your books.
It is not a medicine. You don't know what's in it. If there were compelling scientific and medical data supporting marijuana's medical benefits that would be one thing. But the data is not there.
Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt.