I believe there's something in the Bible about 'Thou shalt not call anyone insane who owns and is competent with more firearms than you own sharp sticks.'

If you already know what recursion is, just remember the answer. Otherwise, find someone who is standing closer to Douglas Hofstadter than you are; then ask him or her what recursion is.

It's not virtual reality until you can be tortured to death in it.

If C++ has taught me one thing, it's this: Just because the system is consistent doesn't mean it's not the work of Satan.

It's written that learning is more precious than rubies, more lasting than gold. Rubies may be lost and gold stolen, but that which you learn is yours forever.

Everything passes. Joy. Pain. The moment of triumph

Let the flesh instruct the mind.

Decide on what you think is right and stick to it.

It's shocking when someone who is really bad thinks they're really good. It's heartbreaking, because singing is such a vulnerable thing to do.

I'm a risk taker, so I have come to accept that at times I will fail. To me, that is better than not trying at all.

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

If life is a river, then pursuing Christ requires swimming upstream. When we stop swimming, or actively following Him, we automatically begin to be swept downstream.

Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop.

A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.