"A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature."

"What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease."

"Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below."

"Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use."

"Being a good Hans Haacke student, part of his influence on me is that there's no difference between a gallery show and a film - or even an ad and a T-shirt-in terms of cultural legitimacy. They're just different contexts in which to have some sort of communication."

"My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business."

"We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more."

"Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio, so I didn't really know anything different. That's how I was raised."