My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

Sunlight is painting.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.