Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Rockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

The microprocessor is a miracle.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.

The only frustrating thing about jail is that I can’t make music.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

I wrote a few children’s books… not on purpose.

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.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

But when I hear a great song, I can’t help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.

My task over the last two years hasn’t just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

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.

I got a chain letter by fax. It’s very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

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

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality.

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it’s really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don’t see a viable competitor.

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 I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I’ve done for 25 years. I don’t need the money. What I need is to feel that I am not letting myself down as an artist and that I still have something to contribute.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

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

I’ve noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it’s various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

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.

When I was five, I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn’t like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

As the poet said, ‚Only God can make a tree,‘ probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

You can’t always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

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.

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.

Apple took the edge off the word ‚computer.‘

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don’t censor yourself, you end up with what you’re most concerned about, but you haven’t filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.

A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I’m joking and when I’m serious.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

It’s no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

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.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

Infrastructure web services had to happen.