Being different is critical.

We need critical mass. We need people, not just one or two. We need a lot of them.

Discretion is the most important thing for a banker. That is the philosophy of the family... I mean, of the bank.

I have a very, very difficult job.

In 1958, my father graduated from secondary school as the highest-achieving student in the state of Kansas, earning a five-year scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He turned it down. For someone raised in a remote farming town, this would have been his opportunity to transform his life, a ticket to a bigger world.

You're going to see relationships with technology across anything that's brand. I don't care if that's in home or what you wear. I just think it's a new fact of life.

The rules changed for art around 1989. We were all loosed upon the canon to clip and paste and borrow and update. Only thing is, unless you were in New York or in a cultural studies program, that new paradigm probably wasn't going to sink in until the Internet arrived.

The promise of the Internet is being held back by Visa, Master Card, American Express.