What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.

To see far is one thing, going there is another.

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

Young love is a flame very pretty often very hot and fierce but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals deep burning unquenchable.

Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.

There would be plenty of justification to raise revenues in order to subsidize businesses that employ low-wage workers. But there can be no justification for pandering to the economy's entire bottom half merely to attract its votes.

When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.

Kids can't look up to girls who are trying to be growner than they are.

I think the toughest part for me was when Herschelle said that he obviously looked up to his Captain, and he felt if his Captain could do it, then so could he, and that to me was when it really struck home.

I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.

I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture.

I think being gay is a blessing, and it's something I am thankful for every single day.

Australians are a passionate lot. We are also a very practical lot.

You cannot do silhouettes in fantasy. Ah, no, you must be faithful. It is, the art, a, what you call, paradox. It is always that you must be simple, and then, if you are simple, you will stimulate the imagination of the observer.

No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.

Each industry in a region should develop a playbook that expands and details the strategy and tactics of how to build a scalable startup.

I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Several times in Earth's history, rapid global warming occurred, apparently spurred by amplifying feedbacks. In each case, more than half of plant and animal species became extinct. New species came into being over tens and hundreds of thousands of years. But these are time scales and generations that we cannot imagine.

I started my second company in 1999. BodyMedia was set up to take advantage of the future of wearables - sensors and computing worn on our bodies in any and all ways that could make our lives better.

I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.

Nature is a definite thing. But nurture is just as powerful. It can really mess with you.

Actions speak louder than words. There is a big difference between what people say and what they do. People might tell you they are excited about your new product, but when they are in a buying situation their behaviour might be totally different.

In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.

Under Xi, China has again become the world's top jailer of journalists. China's rank on the Reporters Without Borders index of press freedom is 176th out of 180 countries. China comes in dead last on the Freedom House 'Freedom on the Net' list.

Technologies like Ayasdi's exist now to automatically discover information from data without having someone making guesses up front.