"A beautiful person is a person who is capable of being the best version of himself/herself, inside and out as often as possible."

“I'd support life extension by whatever means, from cryonic suspension to cyborgism to coding ourselves into our computers or whatever. There is nothing noble or beautiful or dignified about dying. Like poverty, it is ugly, nasty, brutal and primitive.”

“I love winning and any team I'm on, I expect to win.”

“I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.”

“But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.”

“I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it.”

Source : "Goolsbee gets top W.H. econ job" by Mike Allen, www.politico.com. September 10, 2010.

“Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world.”

“I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.”

“The two [separate] UIs are both incredibly simple and don't even look like computer programs; they barely need menus. [When combined, they] suddenly look like software.”