I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you’d rather be in.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

I’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.

In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don’t think they’re doing art but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

I tried to give the world a bit of creativity, lyrics. And for me, I will always represent music from Puerto Rico, reggaeton, Latin music.

No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.

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

The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don’t understand the software parts of it. And so you really can’t make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple’s the only company that has everything under one roof.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

By the mid-’60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that’s important.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

Sometimes I’ll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I’ll just remember it.

You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap – and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and ‚Heart Shaped Box‘ and stuff on ‚In Utero‘ just happened that way.

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.

I’ve discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that’s already there.

I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.

I like the sound a typewriter makes.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I’m really not worth being called an artist at all.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

We’re already cyborgs. Your phone and your computer are extensions of you, but the interface is through finger movements or speech, which are very slow.

Painting, I think it’s like jazz.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.

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.

I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that’s always nice. And if they don’t like them, then too bad.

If I’m inspired to make a certain kind of song, I’m going to make that kind of song, no matter if it’s what they know me as or think I am.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

Young people can create beautiful things.

You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

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

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is ‚naive‘ spelled backward, or that Bosnia is an anagram of ‚bonsai.‘