In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.

It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.

We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months.

I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!

The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.

A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.

It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.