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

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

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

What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It’s a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you ‚play‘ with them!

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they’re transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world… If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.

I know there’s a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that’s fine with me.

I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls. I don’t ever think about what kind of fiction I write or what I am writing about or what I am trying to write about. When I’m writing, what I do is I think about a story that I want to tell.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I’m teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.

Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.

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.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‚Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?‘ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

What makes a song last is real content from a mind that is thinking a little bit harder about certain things. A lot of artists don’t really think that hard.

Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn’t bother me. Because most of my favorite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from different directions each time.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

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.

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

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 are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

I get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

You fail only if you stop writing.

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I’m very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I’m feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It’s gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

I know a lot of artists say this, but it’s hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming form a special place. There’s no tricks.

I’m always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven’t thought of doing yet.

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

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it’s not imagination. It’s just a way of watching.

I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don’t know what you’re doing.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.