I was always taught to be hungry and humble.
Do you know what the costliest phrase in technology is? 'It will work because it would be cool if it did. '
The way to find what the mainstream will do tomorrow is to associate with the lunatic fringe today.
Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of course gradually we become tough, less sensitive.
I think it is better for societies if no one dominates forever.
All I have is an opinion - I don't deal in Truth.
I'm [going] through a mystified period of my life, where the more I learn, the less I know.
But like a gambler at a slot machine, hoping the next spin would change her life for the better, she closed in before she lost her nerve. Taking his hand, she pulled him toward her, near enough to feel his body against her. She looked up at him, tilting her head slightly as she leaned in. Mike, recognizing what was happening but still having trouble believing it, tilted his head and closed his eyes, their faces drawing near.
Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. . . To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my life when it came to being famous.
If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and. . . if I were asked to serve the interests of society apart from, above and against my own I would refuse. . . . I would fight in the full confidence of the justice of my battle and of a living being's right to exist.