At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.

When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.

I've always found it very important to do your homework first and then talk.

The hinge is distinctly different, so when you look at it carefully, you recognize that it is its own unique design.

If what is soft wears down the hard, how much the more so shall the words of the Torah, which are as hard as iron, hollow out my heart, which is flesh and blood.

Help us to forgive ourselves as we struggle in our process of forgiving others."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

We're so absorbed in the effort to get rich, we no longer recognize when we are rich.

There are two types of pain: pain that hurts you and pain that changes you.

Athletics is in my blood.

Christianity is a fine religion and I wish more Christians practiced it.

I'm interested in ways of writing about the social world that don't assassinate the life that's in it

New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.