Computers absolutely changed my life. Before I had a computer, I had never written one thing. Not one thing. I’m a very bad speller and I was embarrassed by that. When I would type, the little mistakes would make me nutty, and I would never edit anything.
Poker would have never gotten on TV when we only had three networks.
People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and I am very, very skeptical.
Every poker player is smarter than me.
Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around.
Even if I disagree with Obama on many, many things, he is certainly qualified to be president. He is certainly competent to be president.
Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.
Counterintuitive action makes a fellow feel smart.
Charities are really good. To a certain extent, the ones you pick are arbitrary.
I’m a big fan of huge populations of people, so you’d think with 300 million people in the country, you don’t even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful.
Someone who is a good person should have no fear of the government whatsoever.
I’m really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I’d be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in the future was inspired by other things.
It wasn’t success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together – within a year, we had achieved all our goals. I mean, our goal was to earn our living doing exactly what we wanted. Which is many people’s goal.
It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more.
Read everything and be kind.
Luck is statistics taken personally.
Exploration of space is worth it because humans need to explore. Knowledge is always good, and it’s a really cool thing to see.
I love nuts. I’m for nuts. I am nuts.
We all have friends we love dearly that couldn’t pass for human in a strict Turing test.
The skills that we have are the actual magic skills – not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don’t get to use again.