Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything.

If Diet Coke did not exist it would have been neccessary to invent it.

It's a great time to be alive and be a computer weenie.

Programmers are expensive. Hardware is cheap.

The geeks shall inherit the earth.

In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not there if you want to keep writing good code.

Being against torture ought to be sort of a multipartisan thing.

Even if you start your laundry before 8 AM on Saturday, you will not finish folding it until after midnight on Sunday.

Nuclear war can ruin your whole compile.

The more you have, the more you have that needs fixing.

You can hardly do anything that won't seem stupid later.

He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.

At a show, I'll look out from the stage and see a woman with a pearl necklace next to a guy in a Grateful Dead T-shirt next to a young kid with his mom. It's fun to see them all together.

Before Chernobyl or without Chernobyl the nuclear power was the safe thing.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

Most magicians consider the palm an easy move to make. They are inclined to believe that they are 'getting away with it,' when they are in fact fortunate enough to have a polite audience.

George W. Bush loves golf because it's like the election--low score wins.

I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.

Good ideas, as we have seen, are not always well received, especially if there are too many of them.

I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me.

Sunglasses are a bit like watches for me - a real obsession. My favourites are Oakleys, Ray-Bans and Wileys, which are worn by the U.S. military.