authenticity Quotes

I can't disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses - the wheelchair gives me away.

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.

You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together.

When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could, they would do so.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate.

I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT.