I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

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

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different; it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Why don’t they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.

I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.

I think a lot of the time there isn’t such a black-and-white difference between what’s a platform and what’s an app. It’s really just like the most important apps become platforms.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

I’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Electronic books are junk.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Computers make me totally blank out.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

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.

To the dumb question, ‚Why me?‘ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‚Why not?‘