I really hate it when people want to kill me. It makes me think they don't want to be friends. - Raven from Blood of Prey

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.

The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.

The vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of this world. Turn away from vanity and seek Him in the recesses of your heart and soul

The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science.

I have always hated the cinema.

The half is greater than the whole.

Data-driven statistics has the danger of isolating statistics from the rest of the scientific and mathematical communities by not allowing valuable cross-pollination of ideas from other fields.

I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.

I think there are certain technical things about acting that change between working in film and television. Everything definitely slows down and we have more time in film.

Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.