“What is past is prologue.”

“Science describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside, [and] both celebrate what they describe.”

“The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.”

“The only way to solve this is by creating new systems that start by equipping customers with their own standardized ways to interact with any service function on the sellers' side, at scale. We actually have tools for that called phones and browsers, but we need to advance on both.”

“Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.”

“We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.”

“My notes always grow longer if I shorten them. I mean the process of compression makes them more pregnant and they breed new notes.”