"I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the place (whether tiny or large, a hut or a palace) orderly, artistic and beautiful with some form of creativity, some form of ‘art’ (p. 213)."

“Kelly was aware that there is one type of favorable bet available to everyone; the stock market.”

Source : William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.75, Macmillan

“As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.”

“A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. February 5, 2008.

“You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's pain and harshness and wretched dreariness with - no not with certainty but with an ignorance you could live with. Deep ignorance, but still a kind that knew its limits. The limits were crucial.”

Source : "Timescape". Book by Gregory Benford, 1980.

“Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that.”

“Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption and watch the world play its part relative to to its fulfillment.”

“If I describe a sunny morning in May (the buds, the wet-winged flies, the warm sun and cool breeze), I am also implying the perishing quality of a morning in May, and a good description of May sets up the possibility of a May disaster.”

“I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.”