I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.

The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC.

Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.

Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do.

Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours.

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.

The speed of light sucks.

If you're willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach, you can almost always do something better

If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

I recognize that I possess a very special intellect, but at the same time, I recognize that I'm lacking in a lot of areas. But being well-rounded is greatly overrated.

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless. Knowing Psalm 23 is different from knowing the shepherd.

Don't analyse your muse too closely, if at all – she'll turn away.

To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.

No one is perfect... absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace.

Realize that you are not alone, that we are in this together and most importantly that there is hope

But eventually I moved the portraiture into the smaller clay things which gave them more of a caricature look to them, rather than a characterization.

I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity - every writer has to try to be, to some extent, sometimes, a law unto himself.

It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.