"I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places."

"I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test."

"I loved couriers. You had this transfer of physical information happening throughout the city and the world. Someone picking up the package, putting it in a bag, going somewhere, taking it out of the bag, giving it to someone else. I thought that was so cool. I wanted to map it, to see that flow on a big screen."

"It's a matter of invitations versus context. Twitter is really good at providing context, like, I''m having coffee at Third Rail Coffee.' Foursquare is about invitations to places. In this respect Foursquare has started to replace Yelp for me."

"Those words are from Lynda Barry's novel 'Cruddy.' I've carried them with me for some time. There's a lot in my life I wasn't expecting. One is the realization that I stood at this pulpit and delivered a reading for my own graduation...15 years ago. Unexpectedly, I'm old."

"I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it makes you a better person...as does learning a foreign language, as does learning math, as does learning how to read."

"What's interesting about Twitter and the influencers that someone follows - like, say, Shaquille O'Neal - is that they see someone who is using the exact same tools that they have access to, and I think that inspires this hope to be able to really engage with someone like him."

"A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can."

"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."

"Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry."

"There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars."

"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."

"The only truth is music."

"Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road."

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

"The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream."

"A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world."

"The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view"

"Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream"

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

"Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry."

"I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility."

"I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference."

"Will you love me in December as you do in May?"

"My witness is the empty sky."

"It all ends in tears anyway."

"I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."

"Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars..."

"My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad."

"What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?"

"Beautiful insane in the rain"

"I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children."

"It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared."

"Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain."

"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life"

"Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone."

"I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted."

"Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go."

"Houses "are "full of things that gather dust"

"And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves."

"On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it will be golden and eternal just like that - There's no need to say another word."

"I'm writing this book because we're all going to die."

"Finding Nirvana is like locating silence."

"So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being."

"One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls."

"But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?"

"As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind."

"Something good will come of all things yet"

"They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they'll get there - and all the time they'll get there anyway, you see."

"Pain or love or danger makes you real again...."