I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.
We can't live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we're all doomed.
Blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and other varieties have anthocyanins that can help reverse some loss of balance and memory associated with aging.
We take better care of the maintenance of our cars than we take care of the maintenance of our bodies.
Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.
In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.
The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.
I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.
I was a reluctant convert, and I am by no means a zealot. But the evidence is compelling: to write off wind-power is either ill-informed or dishonest.
Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.
I consider most of the talent in the financial world to be suboptimal. It could be better placed earning its living in the real world.
I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife.
Every leader needs to clearly explain the top three things the organization is working on. If you can't, then you're not leading well.
You have to understand the separation between what exists in the print media and what exists in reality. It's important to never lose track of reality.
A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.
It takes the same effort to think small than to think big. But to think big frees you from the insignificant details.
My goal in life is to get the federal government down to half its present size and under control, and then I can write murder mysteries.
Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.
When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.
I like the world, but I feel very, very Italian. I love the small parts of my country: Tuscany, Capri in the winter. I don't like big towns.
