Joy Quotes

I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.

There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance.

I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.

One writes to find words' meanings.

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

Isn't it a little racist to call it Black Friday?

I think it’s interesting to me to talk to people who don’t agree with me all the time.

You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.

It is formatted, and I'm tired of using vi. I get really bored.

The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand.

I interviewed Ann Coulter when I was sitting in for Larry King a couple of times, and we have a rapport. I like to talk to her.

Operating systems are like underwear — nobody really wants to look at them.

What's your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that's always on your person.

And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species - to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself.

I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.

That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain.

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.

In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a good mystery.

Women are the harshest critics of other women.

Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.

I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.

Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.

You can't solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.

How do you take something and make it special? The answer is a lot of hard work and a great deal of imagination.

When you empower women and help them thrive, you help their communities thrive. Women shoulder the burden disproportionately.

I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either.

If we give up the notion that everybody’s life is perfect but ours, we would be a lot happier. Nobody’s life is perfect.

A dedication to perfection means that we are doomed always to be just a heartbeat way - from exposure. Perfection is unchanging; lives are ongoing.

In its purest form, dating is auditioning for mating (and auditioning means we may or may not get the part).

Before all else, the Gospel invites us to respond to the God of love who saves us, to see God in others and to go forth from ourselves to seek the good of others.

If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.

The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

I know I walk in and out of several worlds each day.

God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

I think on the things - the issues that Pope Francis cares about - not just remaking the Church and in just sort of a more compassionate visage, but really on trying to move real policy.

Is there such a thing as a man-made stroke? In other words, did someone do this to (Democratic Senator Tim Johnson)? ...I know what this [Republican] party is capable of.

But who knows what good might come from the least of us? From the bones of old horses is made the most beautiful Prussian Blue.

When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.

Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families.

The greatest gift that one human being can give another is unconditional love. It's the only thing, ultimately, that really matters.

Because Music is a language that lives in the spiritual realms, we can hear it, we can notate it and create it, but we cannot hold it in our hands

It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.

Following your own vision is one of the only things that will sustain you.

Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.

Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place.

Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.

A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.

The sad truth is that truth is almost irrelevant in a court of law.

Whether or not, you know, people think that Martin Shkreli is the worst person in the world, the reality is that he is the symptom or a larger problem in an pharmacology industry.