"I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music."

"We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range."

"But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world."

"I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it."

"An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously."

"Foreign policy is about trying to deliver for them the best possible economic benefits, the chance to travel, to study, to work, the opportunity through trade to be able to sell their goods and services and as much peace and security so they can live and bring their kids up so they don't have to fear war."

"If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education."

"I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains."