The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs.

You can’t work with people you hate and succeed. At least, you won’t get the optimum of what you would have obtained when you work with people you love.

Love trumps hate. Courage loves fear. Right always trumps wrong.

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.

I want to live in light of eternity. I want to do now what I'll be glad I did then.

I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways to say things.

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

Not only is it a great concept and a great idea -- helping people -- it's good pizza too!

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar.