“deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.”

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. … To the librarian, they’re a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they’re a scourge of locusts. To department stores, they’re a big beautiful exaltation of larks … all lovely and loose and jingly.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

To be a success in advertising you must want to fill other people with a passion for possession.

An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.

I have a definition of success.

A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales…

In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of pages and years and years of learning.

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

By definition a sequel can’t be original. So you’ve got to figure out what worked the first time around.

progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.