“I can only implement one thing at a time. I'm a one thing at a time person. So, if you give me that huge list of things, I will implement the most important thing. Which is it?”

Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

Source: Natural Right and History (1953), p. 36

The Big Time (1958)

Ride the River (1983), Ch. 5
Context: Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else.

Keynote speech at Christian Management Association conference in Denver, Colorado (March 2006)

When asked what inspired him to write 'Tutti Frutti' amd where the style came from, in The Rolling Stone Interviews: 1967-1980 (1989) edited by Peter Herbst, p. 91.

The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science

Source: Wide Awake