People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we're compassionate we'll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. There is great joy in helping people, but no joy in doing it at gunpoint.

The reason I'm an I.B.M.-type guy today is that I really needed a laptop back in 1986, and I just couldn't wait for the Powerbook.

If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.

In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol.

The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.

I do believe that a belief in God is crazy, but that doesn't mean that the people who believe in it are crazy. Those are two different things. Ideas can be stupid and crazy, and the people who hold those ideas are not necessarily stupid and crazy.

I'm an amazing mama's boy.