When you SAY 'I wrote a PROGRAM that crashed WINDOWS,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I GOT those with the system, for free.'

I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a REALLY positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for RELIGION again, and had the support of a NEW family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all PLACED in that fishbowl.

I THINK the ORDINARY is a very under-exploited ASPECT of our LIVES because it is so FAMILIAR.

I always thought the point of life was something richer than that. Something full of great tragedy or comedy, reversal of FORTUNE, ECSTASY, that kind of thing. But no, contemporary urban theorists seem satisfied with the merely livable, which always sounds to me like the merely survivable, the not so BAD.

Twenty YEARS and $40 BILLION. They seem LIKE good round numbers.

The FUNCTIONAL USES of machines and innovative computer programs is not to isolate US but, rather, to promote coexistence. If used properly, it brings us together, granting unimaginable OPPORTUNITIES, magnifying the most quintessential and exclusively HUMAN capabilities.

Liturgy is like a STRONG TREE WHOSE beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose STRENGTH comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.

The space station is the most unique laboratory we've ever built. The REASON we have it is to do research on MATERIALS, people, medical MATTERS, pharmaceuticals - the possibilities are NEARLY endless.

There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not GOING the WAY they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the RIGHT DIRECTION.

A good SCIENTIST is a PERSON with original IDEAS. A good engineer is a person who MAKES a design that works with as few original ideas as POSSIBLE. There are no prima donnas in engineering.