In the past, before phones and the Internet, all communication was face-to-face. Now, most of it is digital, via emails and messaging services. If people were to start using virtual reality, it would almost come full circle.

I'm a huge fan of online communities. I think that asynchronous internet-based communication forums such as Reddit and other discussion forums are one of the best things that could possibly have happened to collaborative invention. The Rift certainly would not exist without forums.

Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people.

I was interested in virtual reality for several years even before working at USC, it wasn't an interest that started there at all. In fact, when I started working at USC, I already had prototypes of the Rift that were very similar to the final design.

Languages are true analytical methods.

We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.

Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.

I have been in love, and it was a great feeling. It's when you are attracted to and feel affection for someone. You want to do things for that person. But only love isn't enough in a relationship - understanding and communication are very important aspects.

When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life.

Relationships survive on trust, and if that is broken at any point, it's pretty much the end of the relationship. Besides, inability to communicate leads to problems.

There were times when chemo would eat my body, but I told myself that I have the strength and courage to win and come out stronger.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.

Wireless is the largest information, communication, and technology platform in history, and mobile broadband is transforming how we can deliver educational materials and experiences to all students. The technology now exists to support learning on a massive scale and advance the 21st century skills needed to compete in the global economy.

A lot of companies have nice-sounding cultural values like integrity, respect, and excellence, but if those values don't map to specific behaviors, then they quickly get lost. Instead, we see what's called a 'halo effect' where leaders tend to overvalue certain attributes and undervalue others.

Business development is a part of M&A - we identify signals in the market, whether its trends or disruptive technology, and bring them back and address the opportunities. I have three levers I can pull - partnerships, acquisitions, or investments.

If the real radical finds that having long hair sets up psychological barriers to communication and organization, he cuts his hair. If I were organizing in an orthodox Jewish community, I would not walk in there eating a ham sandwich unless I wanted to be rejected so I could have an excuse to cop out.

It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event, you are not even a failure. You're just not there.

People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people.

Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future.

There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.

I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much.

Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of their choosing. In short, radicals must have a degree of control over the flow of events.

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

My only fixed truth is a belief in people: a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn't my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar.

I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.

Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.

The truly unique trait of 'Sapiens' is our ability to create and believe fiction. All other animals use their communication system to describe reality. We use our communication system to create new realities. Of course, not all fictions are shared by all humans, but at least one has become universal in our world, and this is money.