Quotes About Discovery

I had always wanted to do comedy, but didn't know where to start - all I knew was that Edinburgh was where it happened.

Everything is educational.

Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.

I like to take people out of their element.

I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.

I definitely would like to embark on acting, give it a shot, you know maybe that's my calling, maybe it's not.

You've got to embrace what you don't know.

Nothing is more exciting than being around new talent when it emerges.

Science does not emerge in some perfect, complete crystalline form.

At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.

It was only when I went to sixth-form college that I encountered boys.

I may not have written the stories that I've written if I hadn't ended up in Niverville. I don't know; I don't know. How can you know?

I'm not worried about suddenly ending up in a city I don't know.

A lot of writing's going down dead ends that don't go anywhere.

My first engagement with any art was music.

I went to Carnegie Mellon and was an electrical engineer, but electrical engineering wasn't right for me.

Our approach to making games is to find the fun first and then use the technology to enhance the fun.

I enjoyed my 20s - they were torturous and beautiful. I learned so much about myself and about life and about the nature of people.

Ultimately, you have to work for your own enlightenment - for smarts - or it gets boring.

When I was a kid, my parents were always like, 'Money doesn't buy happiness.' I thought, 'You just didn't make enough money.' I had to go find it out for myself.

I'm a travel enthusiast.

I'm a real amateur enthusiast for science.

When I got together with Alec it took me a while to understand. I knew nothing about him before I met him. I'd never had a TV in my entire life, I knew nothing about it.

I'm an accidental entrepreneur.