Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what you tell it to do. It's like designing a machine — any machine, like a car, like a faucet, like a gas-hinge for a door — using math and instructions. It's awesome in the truest sense: it can fill you with awe.

We roared. We were one big animal throat, roaring.

Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.

I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.

It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity.

It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.