"A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn’t allow it to spoil your lunch."

"O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out."

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: “O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.” And God granted it."

"I don’t care about money, ‘cause it never cared about me."

"True humour comes from a place of depth and intelligence. Craig Ferguson, Louis CK and Henry Rollins are funny. Those who expend their lives on nothing but trying to be funny…not so much."

"Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions."

"Fear is the opposite of trust."

"I should have called him an honourable asshole."

"How did Bill Gates become the richest man in America? His wealth has nothing to do with the production costs of what Microsoft is selling: i.e. it is not the result of his producing good software at lower prices than his competitors, or of ‘exploiting’ his workers more successfully (Microsoft pays its intellectual workers a relatively high salary). If that had been the case, Microsoft would have gone bankrupt long ago: people would have chosen free systems like Linux which are as good as or better than Microsoft products. Millions of people are still buying Microsoft software because Microsoft has imposed itself as an almost universal standard, practically monopolising the field, as one embodiment of what Marx called the ‘general intellect’, meaning collective knowledge in all its forms, from science to practical knowhow. Gates effectively privatised part of the general intellect and became rich by appropriating the rent that followed from that. The possibility of the privatisation of the general intellect was something Marx never envisaged in his writings about capitalism (largely because he overlooked its social dimension). Yet this is at the core of today’s struggles over intellectual property: as the role of the general intellect – based on collective knowledge and social co-operation – has increased in post-industrial capitalism, so wealth accumulates out of all proportion to the labour expended in its production. The result is not, as Marx seems to have expected, the self-dissolution of capitalism, but the gradual transformation of the profit generated by the exploitation of labour into rent appropriated through the privatisation of knowledge."

"I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent."

"You will not be able to stay home, brother. You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out. You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip. Skip out for beer during commercials. Because the revolution will not be televised."

"Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated."

"Abandon mediocrity all who enter here."

"It’s probably a fact"