I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

Making music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.

Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren’t equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it’s just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you can’t get a clean manuscript unless you start again from scratch. It’s an incredibly tedious process.

Painting, I think it’s like jazz.

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

Some people say that I should study to become a climate scientist so that I can ‚solve the climate crisis.‘ But the climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

I guess if I’m a product, either you’re chocolate, you’re vanilla or you’re butterscotch. You can’t be all three.

You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That’s what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it’s not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It’s more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

Facts are not interesting to me.

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we’re getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we’ve ever had before.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Facts are stubborn things.

Life’s a rollercoaster. You’re up one minute; you’re down one minute. But who doesn’t like rollercoasters?

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

It’s very difficult to read a book on your computer.

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.

The brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body-builder.

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I’ve never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Creationists make it sound as though a ‚theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.