According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.

Success is a lousy teacher.

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

You don't go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before all the details of who it is, where it is, are so intertwined in that text that it's easier to write it from scratch.

We'll have infinite bandwidth in a decade's time.

Robotics and other combinations will make the world pretty fantastic compared with today.

The market does not drive the scientists, the communicators, the thinkers, the government to do the right things.