If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting in a traffic jam. People should see that.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do.

I bought some instant water one time but I didn’t know what to add to it.

There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

It’s very strange to go to cities like London and New York. People walk so quickly, they seem to be in a hurry all the time. And you don’t say ‚Hi‘ to everyone you meet, and you don’t smile to everyone you meet, because there’s just so many. Which is also very strange.

Today, we’re very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted – all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

I’m no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

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

I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.

I’m really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I’m out; I’m asleep for takeoff.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

I love driving my car on any highway.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too – eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko’s, Fatburger, Subway – I was a sandwich artist – and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.

I’m a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they’re simpler for customers.

I got this powdered water – now I don’t know what to add.

I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.

Oh yes, there’s lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that – you can have it just the next minute; you can press the button and just have it.

I’m the slowest driver in the world.

I don’t think people are going to switch over to bikes because it’s good for them or because it’s politically correct. They’re going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.

I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet – the only one in the whole Milky Way – with a century of transportation whoopee.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

We could definitely make a flying car – but that’s not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that’s super safe and quiet? Because if it’s a howler, you’re going to make people very unhappy.

For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

I run New York City!

If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they’ve done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one’s own town.

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

I like the word ‚autopilot‘ more than I like the word ‚self-driving.‘ ‚Self-driving‘ sounds like it’s going to do something you don’t want it to do. ‚Autopilot‘ is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.

My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

I cycled when I was at high school, then reconnected with bikes in New York in the late ’70s. It was a good way of getting around the clubs and galleries of the Lower East Side and Soho.

In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it’s great.

If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.

I don’t listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don’t have a car.

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you’re well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they’re used to seeing me walking around, so I don’t think I’m a very big deal.

People don’t want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

My neighbor has a circular driveway… he can’t get out.

Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.

Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it’s taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, ‚Let’s get out the camera and get that shot.‘ You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want.