"Technology favors horrible people."

"Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them."

"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."

"The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all."

"I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself."

"Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind's eye. That's an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition."

"Courage is not the absence of despair it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair."

"If it wasn't for 2 Live Crew videos wouldn't look like they do and rappers wouldn't sound like they do."