Design is nothing if not decision making.

The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.

No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art.

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.

Form follows failure.

The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically defining what it means to be civilized, educated, and refined.

All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.

Any design, whether its for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.

Our expectations for a technology rise with its advancement.

Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

We have been through four and five generations of technology since the PATRIOT Act.

To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.

Beauty is created by fellow human beings, and enhanced because they are in relationship with each other.

When two people were in love you had to leave them to it. Especially when you weren't in love and wished that you were. That could embarrass. That could hurt.

I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."

A person's self-concept is the core of his personality.

A writer is basically someone who shares his or her value or vision of the world.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.