I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.

My scientific qualifications are relatively scant. I like science. I try really hard to educate myself about it, but in the end, if something has to go 'boom,' and it would probably only go 'fwoosh,' I am relatively unconcerned about that, which is a sin, but not, I think, a grave one.

When we started, we thought about the scale of the Internet - if everyone was using the service at the same time, what would that look like?

What I'm going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It's the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city.

One of the first things that I did was, I got myself a publicist as soon as 'Maria Full of Grace' premiered in July, so that I could go and meet people that I wanted to meet: the writers and the directors and the people that are doing things.

I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.

I think every script I read has something that sends me into a state of panic but that usually makes me want to do it.

There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

I'm humble enough to wait and just chill. I'm having fun just working with these good people, man.

I use doodling for a variety of reasons: I use it to get clarity around a concept, I use it to relax, I use it to communicate ideas with others and get their refinement of them, I use it to map complex systems for companies, I use it to run innovation games for business, I use it to get insight on something puzzling me.

I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't want to have to give anybody seventy; I don't want anybody to give me seventy. I want fifty.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.