"I've always felt I carried a golden secret, a wonderful secret. Every time I thought about it, it made me feel warm inside and good."

“I really like to be alone. It's nearly like being naked in the studio, and if someone were to walk in, that wouldn't feel good.”

“So crucify the ego, before its far too late To leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical, And you will come to find that we are all one mind Capable of all thats imagined and all conceivable. Just let the light touch you And let the words spill through And let them pass right through Bringing out our hope and reason ... before we pine away.”

“What is more simple than to tell to a little boy, 'This is not the truth, it is a game?'”

“My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part, I am the innocentest person of them all, only I have been sworn against by perjured persons.”

Source : Carrie (Jenkins) [Harris ("Mrs. C. W. Harris"]), Charles Edward Lloyd, Mary (Queen of Scots), Francis Hargrave, William Kidd (1899). “State Trials of Mary, Queen of Scots, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Captain William Kidd”

“the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth.”

Source : Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.175, The Floating Press

“When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident”

“There are lots of examples of routine, middle-skilled jobs that involve relatively structured tasks, and those are the jobs that are being eliminated the fastest. Those kinds of jobs are easier for our friends in the artificial intelligence community to design robots to handle them. They could be software robots; they could be physical robots.”

Source : "Are robots hurting job growth?". "March of the Machines" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. January 13, 2013.