The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.

I've made more money than I could spend in five lifetimes.

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.