People assume that all artists make for terrible business people but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

When I've gone back to work it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

I'm either going to go completely mental completely bankrupt or have the best success of my life.

My imagination completely controls me and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy love and horror are in my blood.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

In a completely rational society the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false misleading fictitious mendacious - just dead wrong.