You know, I've never accidentally drilled a hole in myself while programming.

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.

Find someone who loves you enough to forgive you for all of your mistakes.

We have all at one time been stranded on islands shouting lies across the seas of misunderstanding, hoping the fog will carry our mischief to the distant ports in people’s minds.

As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection.

Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.

It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.

Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!

If we are looking for signs of democratization, then surely we are looking as well for forms of living on equal terms in and among cultural differences.

My first official consulting job, therefore, was for a scrap metal dealer (he resented the term "junk dealer") in East Edmonton named Benny Sugarman.

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.