Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

The suits are as similar as uniforms, and yet you can tell their individual qualities by how they respond to movement - the good ones ripple like wheat in a field and provide not a show of monotony but rather a spectacle of plenty.

I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.

Ensuring that the intelligence community adheres to its responsibilities to report on its activities to Congress is absolutely essential.

Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.

Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent.

Let me tell you this, a daughter is a boon to this mankind.

If Reagan had intelligence information that showed that the upheaval in Egypt is actually Democratic in spirit, then he would have, I believe, turned his back on Mubarak, even though there's a long friendship between the United States and Egypt.

It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks.

I'll tell you why, I don't invite the ones I don't like.

One of the interesting applications of symbolic systems is artificial intelligence, and I spent some time thinking about how to create a brain that operates the way ours does.

I cannot tell you how many times I have seen the original 'Steel Magnolias' with Dolly Parton and Sally Field and Julia Roberts.

I cannot tell a joke. But I can do a situation, that it becomes a joke.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

I look for subjects who have stories to tell - who are looking to tell something.

You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.

When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.

It's hard to tell yourself to get ready when it's like, 'I need to make this freaking team first.'