Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.

I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to them but not their setting. I hate the overspill of sound which metro and subway riders are oblivious to because they notice no one and nothing around them.

We treasure what we can measure.

Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

I don't think you ever know anyone until you see them in action.

Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy.

The truth won't set us free until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.