Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

I push myself in a lot of aspects when I write a song. I write a piece and where most people would stop and say, ‚Oh, that’s the hook right there,‘ I’ll move that to the first four bars of the verse and do a new hook.

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

Every artist wants something different out the game.

And if you’re horrible to me I’m going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That’s how I operate.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

Don’t be too harsh to these poems until they’re typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

Quarks came in a number of varieties – in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks – they are called u-type, d-type, s-type.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.

PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.

My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is easy to conceive of innovation and regulation as mutually exclusive, California is proof that we can do both. We can innovate responsibly.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

I think sometimes – not always – I write songs that are accessible.

I think you can give a pure artistic product if you understand how to build your own industry.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

My message to the Americans is the same as to everyone – that is to unite behind the science and to act on the science.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

I don’t think a song should be put in a category.

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.

Doing graphic novels is cool! It’s fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

Never regret what you don’t write.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

I think there’s a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

If you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don’t know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don’t know. I really don’t know.

It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.