He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.
The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.
Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?
Future is not extrapolation of past
If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.
Not thinking it's possible is a failure of imagination.
If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the morbid? Does this liability, moreover, increase in proportion as the effort is great and the ambition intense?
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
Cremation has become the most popular form of burial in the United States. . . People used to want a big, thick granite stone, their names carved into with a chisel. I was here dammit! Cremation is like you're trying to cover up a crime. Burn the body. Scatter the ashes around. As far as anyone's concerned this whole thing never happened.
Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its own, just to get your attention. Sometimes what's inside will change your life, but sometimes you don't even have to read it. Sometimes it's a comfort just to have a book around. Many of these books haven't even had their spines cracked. 'Why do you buy books you don't even read?' our daughter asks us. That's like asking someone who lives alone why they bought a cat. For company, of course.