Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?

In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he's doing, he's smart and he's got the big picture in mind. He's like the Godfather.

We each have our lives... What matters is not how long those lives last, but what we do with them.

When tending a vast and beautiful garden, you have to plant many seeds, never knowing ahead of time which ones will germinate, which will produce the most glorious flowers, which will bear the sweetest fruit. A good gardener plants them all, tends and nurtures them, and wishes them well. Optimism is the best fertilizer.

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.

Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?