I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.

Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work.

American Stance: Everything not forbidden is permitted. Prussian Stance: Everything not permitted is forbidden.

In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll laugh now at anyone who tries to invent a language without recursion.

The appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of its scope.

You can only chase a butterfly for so long.

No matter the level of sacrifices they may demand, it's far better to occupy yourself with your goals than to leave them unattended.

Freedom doesn’t come through banning

To be alive at all involves some risk.

Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

I see the invisible spirits, where demons still find it livable. I need a hug to hold my soul inside my body.

Upon discovering truth, the natural love one has for oneself expands until it encompasses the whole world. This Love removes the ego.

The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal [secular] concerns of men.

There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!