"My son doesn't know how flawed I am, how flawed we are. He still likes us so much, and that's so incredible to be around."

“America is the only major country that tries to ascertain who was the first applicant to invent the product or procedure. This may seem fair, but long proceedings to determine precisely when each party conceived an idea result mostly in keeping innovations from hitting the market.”

“It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.”

Source : "The New Face of Chess Is a Pretty One" by Catherine Donaldson-Evans, www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2002.

“I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.”

“Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.”

“As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.”

Source : Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”, New York

“I suppose we're not supposed to judge people.”

“Robb: Uncle Benjen said to send you to the stables if I saw you. Jon: I have one more farewell to make. Robb: Then I haven't seen you.”

“The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.”

Source : Stewart Brand (1999). “The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility”, p.12, Basic Books