Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.

Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth.

One thing that I have been trying to do is bring together in places like Bosnia technologists who create ever-more destructive land mines [and convince them not to build more dangerous mines]. And that has actually worked.

There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.

Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine.

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.