It's a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that's sickening. The international response so far has been scandalous. China has delivered f**k all.

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.

Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn't there.

What's the point in having a company of secretaries?

If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older

Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it. Well, I'm Bob and I'm an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.

Rock & roll is instant coffee.