I wonder if one can view risk like a drug, beneficial to the organism in the proper dose. Too much or too little may be harmful.

I soon learned that Everest wasn't a private affair. It belonged to many men.

But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them.

If I told my wife I was going to become a manager she'd say 'sign this then. Don't worry it's only a divorce. Au revoir'.

Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months

The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.

You didn't have to take a punch for me, you know,' he said. 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' 'You're a freak is what you are,' I said.

Unless you're completely exploded, there's always something to be grateful for.

I don't care how much evidence the state presented. I've never for one moment believed he murdered that waitress.

If you're being true to who you are, and the things you believe in, that is so attractive to me.

When you want full color perception, you must give up preferring some colors and hating others, for you can only hate one aspect of a color, not a whole color, it seems, hate being blind, like 'love.