All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.

I like writing. I get cranky when I can’t. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

In my day, there were no vet video games.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

We’re going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

I read the NY Times but I don’t trust all of it.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

Infrastructure web services had to happen.

People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

It’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, ‚Nobody under 40,‘ or ‚Nobody under 25.‘ With my books, it always has been, and continues to be, spread right across the board, and I think the operative term is ‚reader.‘

I am in touch with a company that hopes to replicate my voice. However, they are not replicating my original voice – if they did that, I would sound like a man in his 20s, which would be very strange! They are actually trying to replicate the synthesizer that sits on my wheelchair.

Books are sharks… because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.

I don’t think about who the audience is for my books.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You’d be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

I don’t do Shakespeare. I don’t talk in that kind of broken English.