All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.

Don’t let them say you ain’t beautiful. They can all get fucked, just stay true to you.

The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

Reward worthy failure–experimentation

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.

In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it's online, all those early buyers who... you want to play with, they've got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games.

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.

I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it.

People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.