Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.

You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.

I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.

If you truly have a passion for what you do, you will care even about the parts unseen.

The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand.

Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness. Such men make this cosmos and its construction the pivot of their emotional life, in order to find the peace and security which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.