We tend to credit those who create an idea, not those who perfect it, forgetting that it is often only in the perfection of an idea that true progress occurs. Putting sixty-four transistors on a chip allowed people to dream of the future. Putting four million transistors on a chip actually gave them the future.

The Law of the Few... says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger.

I'm a purist: I start to wrinkle my nose when the Cold War ends.

The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play.

I'm totally engaging in cultural stereotyping, no question about it. But I think it's OK because I'm doing it for a reason, for a good reason.

It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one - not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses - ever makes it alone.

When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters-first and foremost-how they behave.