I can’t say that exhaustive research and reporting will guarantee a great story, but I’ve never been able to pull one off without it.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
In presence of the Moon nobody sees stars.
Education is the best provision for old age.
Everyone checks out my mom. My mom's hot.
The intelligence we will create from the reverse-engineering of the brain will have access to its own source code and will be able to rapidly improve itself in an accelerating iterative design cycle....
It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places.
Everything started as nothing.
I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'
Good design is good business.
A bird that fears turbulence will never know how high it can fly.