I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it

I think that object orientedness is almost as much of a hoax as artificial intelligence.

I spent years trying to find some use for inheritance and virtuals, before I understood why that mechanism was fundamentally flawed and should not be used.

Complexity assertions have to be part of the interface

I find OOP technically unsound.

In India there’s no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man’s face and you’ll find an old man’s mind.

[politicians are] like toddlers arguing over who gets the candy, but with a better vocabulary and less whacking each other with toys.

Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it. When I reach the soul of one of my boys with an idea, or ideal, or vision, then I have done my job as a coach.

Spaces may or may not invite the image - if they do, they mostly do it with their spatial layers of time... It is then the image that takes the place of the space; the image in its own right.

And, again, I don't know where he [Osama Bin Laden] is. I — I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him.

Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.

I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.

I've been sober for 25. And every day I am very grateful that I don't drink.

I'm an A student. I'm addicted to feedback, and I want to please people. That's sort of how I've gotten to where I am.

Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.