“Give and ye shall receive.”

The content people have no clue. I mean, no clue. The cost of bandwidth is going down to nothing. And the size of hard drives is getting so big, and they’re so cheap, that pretty soon you’ll have every song you own on one hard drive. The content distribution industry is going to evaporate.

With BitTorrent, the cat’s out of the bag.

I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called ‘vices’, to be free of intruders, and to privacy.

Every time I sit in the audience and watch a show that I have been involved with, it is such an amazing feeling to see all those people around me, knowing they are actually watching and enjoying something I have written.

I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it’s because I know I’m right.

Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot.

I’ve accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team.

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.

The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.

Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.

Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world…

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

It is important to receive God’s arrangement in the circumstances. This arrangement is the discipline of the Holy Spirit. To escape God’s arrangement just one time is to lose an opportunity to have our capacity enlarged. A believer can never be the same after passing through suffering.

Schools receive 12% more per student for those doing media studies or psychology than they do for those doing maths. You could change that around, made a premium on doing maths.