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.

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

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

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.

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

Leonardo da Vinci was lucky to be born the same year that Johannes Gutenberg opened his printing shop. As a young person, he could get information about whatever struck his curiosity. The Internet is to our age what Gutenberg's press was to his, so he would have loved being alive today.

I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened... I didn't want to be violated in that way.'