"Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems..." - Quote by Alan Watts

“Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.”

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.”

“There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. You cannot talk yourself into it or rouse it by straining at the emotions or by dedicating yourself solemnly to the service of mankind. Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hating oneself, through calling self love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love.”

“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”

“Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.”

“You can't argue with what is.... Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.”

“We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.”

“The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air in a spacious apartment, and warms that, instead of robbing himself, makes that his bed, in which he can move about divested of more cumbrous clothing, maintain a kind of summer in the midst of winter, and by means of windows even admit the light and with a lamp lengthen out the day.”

“We have to be successful at the cutting-edge industries of the future like Twitter. But we also have always been a country that makes stuff.”