"Artists are kids. I feel like I'm six years old."

“I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.”

“Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.”

“In Hilbert space no one can hear you scream.”

“New information and communications technologies can improve the quality of life for people with disabilities, but only if such technologies are designed from the beginning so that everyone can use them. Given the explosive growth in the use of the World Wide Web for publishing, electronic commerce, lifelong learning and the delivery of government services, it is vital that the Web be accessible to everyone.”

“The double jeopardy of being black and female in a racist and sexist society may well make one less afraid of the sanctions against success. A non-subservient black woman is by definition a transgressive- she is the ultimate outsider.”

Source : Mamphela Ramphele, Johnnetta B. Cole (1999). “Across Boundaries: The Journey of a South African Woman Leader”, p.181, Feminist Press at CUNY

“You do everything you weren't allowed to do in school. Jumping up and down, screaming, annoying people, and people love you for it.”

“Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect.”

“Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough omnivorous bacteria could out-compete real bacteria: They could spread like blowing pollen, replicate swiftly, and reduce the biosphere to dust in a matter of days. Dangerous replicators could easily be too tough, small, and rapidly spreading to stop - at least if we make no preparation. We have trouble enough controlling viruses and fruit flies.”

Source : K. Eric Drexler (1986). “Engines of creation”, Anchor Books