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“If I want to have a conversation, I can't have a list of questions, because the second question on the list is going to interrupt the conversation.”
Source : Interview with Sarah Fay, believermag.com. June 1, 2010. 
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“For the forest to be green, each tree must be green.”
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“This merely formal conceiving of the facts of one's own wretchedness is at the same time a departure from them--placing them in the object. It is not idle, therefore, to observe reflexively that in that very Thought, one has separated himself from them, and is no longer that which empirically he still sees himself to be.”
Source : William Ernest Hocking, Ph.D. (1912). “The Meaning of God in Human Experience”
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“The lesson is: Even if you know exactly what is going on in you system, measure performance, don't speculate. You'll learn something, and nine times out of ten, it won't be that you were right!!”
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“I feel so blessed to have had the chance to do this job [ U.S. Solicitor General] in this moment in our history. It's been an incredible thing.”
Source : Source: www.slate.com
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“I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer this.”
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“Let me go out on a limb and suggest that those who see hints of a new class ideology developing around information technology are not necessarily wild-eyed. "Bit-twiddlers" are neither exactly proletariat nor bourgeoisie. They may not own the means of production in the sense that Marx argued, but they certainly do have significantly control over those means, in a more profound way than the term "symbols analysts" or "knowledge workers" captures. As a rough generalization, they value science and technological problem-solving elegance equally at least with profit.”
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“The only good hero is the kind who survives to talk about merchandising.”
