One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or insult.
The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.
Net-a-Porter offers catwalk fashion and trend-driven shopping, but for Mr Porter, while fashion is still important, style is key.
You can still wear trousers and show off your ankles - which are a nice body part on everyone.
Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.
I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.
It's really hard to compete with Apple on pure coolness, and if you do, you're probably going to use some of the things they pioneered.
One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
I just get up every day and do what seems like the most interesting, fun thing to do.
While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments.
People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.
A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.
Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.
The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt.
I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'
I think about things like, 'Will my kids need a college account? Will they even go to college?' I don't know if that will be the case.
