"Gaiety is the soul's health; sadness is its poison."

“Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.”

Source : David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

“I was absolutely floored as a lot of people are but also I was reunited with ideas that I actually had as a teenager and these are ideas that I had put away as I approached college years because they were ridiculous on the face of it and when you talk to someone about living forever, they just dismiss you out of hand.”

Source : "Barry Ptolemy Gets Personal". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 27, 2009.

“Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite.”

“We didn't really expect to achieve anything outside of the UK, and it just went crazy. It's just crazy that people know our music. We're just humbled by it.”

“I love being a fashion designer.”

“Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.”

“I was home schooled starting in seventh grade.”

“In an improv group and a successful work team, the members play off one another, each person's contributions providing the spark for the next. Together, the improvisational team creates a novel emergent product, one that's more responsive to the changing environment.”