I was originally going to become a biochemist, but it just got way too complicated.

I was originally going to become a biochemist, but it just got way too complicated.

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate.

To me the arcade experience is the ultimate gaming experience.

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired.

Limits should be placed on how big big banks can become.

Nobody wants to hear me rap.

It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.

All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.

I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.

Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

Just getting a degree is not enough, and you need to sell your ideas.

Some peoples affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

Cities aren't like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea.

I've always had this identity thing. When I was little, I was always changing my handwriting because I couldn't decide which one I liked best.

My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.

When the audience is awful you can still have a great night and people will walk out thinking they had a great time even though there was loads of loudmouths and the sound was terrible.

In 2007, there weren't any other accelerators, at least that I was aware of. We were almost the prototypical Y Combinator founders: We were highly technical but had never done a startup before. We also didn't know anyone in the Valley - investors, other entrepreneurs, potential hires. YC seemed like a great way to bootstrap that network.

For me and my husband, one of my biggest peeves is that I can't stand for an old friend or a woman to walk in the room and just run up and speak to my husband, but they don't talk to me.

I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

I can only be in the sun for 15 minutes before burning. I have sunscreen on my face every day. If I'm walking on the sunny side of the street, I'll walk to the shady side. I'm too uncomfortable in the sun.

Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even better than playing basketball.

There are so many guys that come up and have strong hearts, but they just have to understand what the consequences are and how to execute the things that they learned to make themselves successful.