Adequacy is sufficient.

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.

We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.

With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.

I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.

The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.

Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions.

Adequacy is sufficient.

You can't fall in love after 40; you know so much about life that you can't get fooled anymore.

I'm not exactly in a position where I get to be super-picky about the roles I get. But I would also never want to be a part of something that I think is poor in taste or doesn't align with what I believe in.

Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real you never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces.

But I think primarily, it's the fans that make this race.

I think President Obama has been an extraordinarily successful president, and that this period will record that with a bunch of exclamation points. But obviously, not everybody thinks that.

I pretty much got into theatre to do community theatre and things, but then I went to Williamstown and found an agent. I then went to New York and did a lot of theatre there, so I started doing only theatre.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

If you went to see me today, you might not like my music.

There's so much that can influence kids and young adults now, you just have to raise them the best you can and hope they make the right decisions.

I have a big appetite, and staying on top of that is about knowing myself and saying, 'I can eat that today, but tomorrow I'm not going to.'

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.

Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies.

Eros is everywhere. It is what binds.

I am a family man, and I have to find my priorities. During the season, it is to race. During the off-season, it is to spend time with my family.

I've never wanted to just ride on coat tails. I don't know, if you don't earn something then it doesn't feel as good.

It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

Every generation is more influenced by technology which is always changing faster.

The dull externals of the screenwriter's working life are well known: We are the people taking up too much table space at cafes.

I'm not thinking about me that much anymore. Every time I look, I'm looking for my daughter, you know? If I'm in a store, I'm looking at baby clothes. It's so much cuter to find things for her than to find things for me.

Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."

Wall Street shouldn't be deregulated. I think Wall Street and Main Street need to play by the same set of rules. The middle-class can't carry the burden any longer, that is what happened in the last decade. They had to bail out Wall Street.

Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.

My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.