"Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew."

-- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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“The thing is, if people get it right away, I just don't think you're making art. I think you're making something they're comfortable with. You have to challenge people. You know, it has to be new. It has to be something they haven't seen before. Just bring them something they haven't seen before. They aren't going to love it right away because they haven't seen it before. So they have to take a minute, you know?”
“Don't attribute mishaps to a lapse in concentration - if you missed the note you don't know it.”
“People who think in absolutes usually don't listen to anyone but themselves. They resist new ideas and try to preserve the status quo. ...”

Source : Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.201, Simon and Schuster
“Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots.”

Source : "How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Revisited". Washington Post Online Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 23, 2006.
“The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper.”
“If you take a violin, you can make it sound 50 different ways. Not just pizzicato and played by the bow, but ponticello, and harmonics, and tremolos. If you take an oboe and play it, there's about one way you can make it sound: like an oboe.”
“I love playing a dad. It's hard to find family dramas that are genuinely funny.”
“What if you woke up this morning and had only the things you thanked God for yesterday?”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 8, 2011

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