A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

I wanted to join Footlights, ” he says. “I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact I wanted to be John Cleese and it took me some time to realise that the job was in fact taken.

But now he felt as if the whole world were tipping backwards over his head, and this, he couldn’t help feeling, was a very worrying thing for the world to do.

Nonfiction. I didn’t choose it as much as it chose me. It squatted and birthed me one raw winter day then jerked me up and set me to scribing.

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

My dad is from India, my mom is from Russia. Fortunately, we moved a lot. I went to a lot of different schools and completely different cultures, so thats my background.

You never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick.

So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.

Kabuto: It's always easier said than done. I just said that this jutsu had no weaknesses or risk... Itachi: Every jutsu has its weakness. This jutsu's weakness and risk is...the existence of me!

No amount of temporal success can compensate for the loss of God's approval.

I don't really remember, but from about the age of five I told anyone who would listen that I was going to be the best golfer in the world.

Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.