The last people with any ideas are young people.

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.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

In all seriousness, people think that it’s the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words – that’s how long a novel is.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

The thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

I write screenplays in the middle of the night.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

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

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Think off-center.

We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.

I don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

A lot of people don’t realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

In my research, I’ve interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call ‚different‘: scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

I find that when I get on stage now, I don’t want to perform a lot of my songs because they don’t feel like me. So I want to make songs that are timeless.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

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.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

An author writes a book, and that’s the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.

I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It’s a speech-to-text program, and there’s an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It’s an individual-feel thing, you know?

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I’ve taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, ‚The Hornet’s Nest,‘ I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I’m proud of.

In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.

When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.

You know, as a writer, I’m more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

I don’t really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

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.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I’ll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I’ve written a whole song in an hour.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.

I don’t like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can’t do it.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

In America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

I have the ’77 Million Paintings‘ running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I’ll look up from what I’m doing and I think, ‚God, I’ve never seen anything like that before!‘ And that’s a real thrill.

Infrastructure web services had to happen.

California is not just the Golden State. We are also the Internet State.

There’s no formula.

I never look at my watch when I’m sketching!

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It’s very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.