Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics.

To iterate is human, to recurse divine.

Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Dreams are like passing clouds but love makes the world stand still for something beautiful to happen.

Romance is everything.

Sometimes, things need to come undone for better things to come together.

[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave - is now almost conventional wisdom.

You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.

Your life is a blank page. You write on it.

The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.

What do you expect me to do? Sleep alone?

I'm in full support of that technique [meditation] , and what David Lynch is doing. It's very important.