"It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married."

"I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny."

"I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work."

"The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical."

"You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being."

"Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you."

"Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure."

"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it."