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Larry Page
Founding CEO, Google Inc.
Larry Page: I think Google is great because, basically artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. So we have the ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the Web. It would understand exactly what you wanted, and it would give you the right thing. That's obviously artificial intelligence, to be able to answer any question, basically, because almost everything is on the Web, right? We're nowhere near doing that now. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically what we work on. And that's tremendously interesting from an intellectual standpoint.
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Suzan-Lori Parks
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Usually, it's just like I can hear talking. Topdog was like -- I thought that if I looked up -- I didn't, as I was writing, because I wrote for three days, or 72 hours. People said, "Well, you wrote from this day to that," but it was like a three-day period. Wrote, wrote, wrote, wrote, and I thought if I looked up, I would see someone pouring silver liquid into the back of my head. That's what it felt like. It was just like "I know."
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Suzan-Lori Parks
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
We were hanging out at our house in Venice Beach, and I said to Paul, my husband, "I'm going to write " and I talked in this voice, which is funny, because maybe the nasal tone thing -- Oh, it gets kind of creepy! "I'm going to write a play a day, and I'm going to call it 365 Days/365 Plays. Wow!" Paul wears his sunglasses -- his shades -- all the time, 'cause he's a blues musician. He's sitting on the couch like this, and he goes, "Yeah, baby. That'd be cool," like that. I said, "I'm going to do this", and he said, "That'd be cool." There it began. I ran upstairs and started right then. It was the 13th of November 2003, I think, or maybe 2002. I can't remember. Anyway, 2002 or 2003. And I wrote a play a day. The first one was called Start Here.
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Suzan-Lori Parks
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
I was in a canoe with a friend, paddling along, and I said to the friend, I hollered up to the friend, "I'm going to write a play, a riff on The Scarlet Letter, and I'm going to call it Fucking A. Ha, ha, ha!" We laughed in the canoe. As we dragged the canoe back to shore, the idea had deeply hooked me, and I knew that I had to write a play, a riff on The Scarlet Letter called Fucking A. Funny enough, I hadn't read The Scarlet Letter yet. I hadn't yet read the book, I just knew the story. Went home, read the book, and that became the long process of writing a play called Fucking A.
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Suzan-Lori Parks
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
It was literally as if he walked into the room. Not the historical Lincoln. This other guy, this black guy who looked just like him walked into the room, sat down, and started telling me, "There was once a man who bore a strong resemblance to Abraham Lincoln " and all I was doing was just writing down what he said. It was trippy. Yeah! So that was in 1994-ish, and then in 1999, I was hanging out with a friend of mine, Emily Morris, a wonderful dramaturg, and I said to her, "Oh, I know what I'm going to write about. Two brothers: Lincoln and Booth." Ba-dump-bump. Ha ha! We started laughing, just like the canoe, Fucking A. Ha, ha, ha. It's always a joke, not a funny joke, but a joke with a hook, and I was hooked. I was hooked by the great fisherman, and I went home and wrote it quickly, and it was like silver liquid in my head.
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