"You always learn lessons in business."

“Machines will never be able to give the thinking process a model of thought itself, since machines are not mortal. What gives humans access to the symbolic domain of value and meaning is the fact that we die.”

Source : "Revolution in the revolution". Interview with Andrew Joscelyne, www.wired.com. January 1, 1995.

“I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart.”

“There is price you pay when you want freedom of speech. You must be willing to accept the good the bad and the ugly when trying something out of the box.”

“I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.”

Source : "Fifteen Questions with Nicholas A. Christakis". Interview with Stephanie M. Woo, www.thecrimson.com. October 20, 2011.

“That questionable superfluity small beer.”

“It is believed that physiognomy is only a simple development of the features already marked out by nature. It is my opinion, however, that in addition to this development, the features come insensibly to be formed and assume their shape from the frequent and habitual expression of certain affections of the soul. These affections are marked on the countenance; nothing is more certain than this; and when they turn into habits, they must leave on it durable impressions.”

“Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.”

“I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which is sad, really.”