If Sun were to hand the management of Java over to a committee of monkeys, would it be more successful?

When I evaluate a candidate, one of the most important criteria is what I call “the first derivative.” Is this person learning? Is this candidate moving forward, or have they stagnated.

Branching is easy. Merging is hard.

He couldn't understand how he was awarded medals and honors for clubbing and bayoneting people, and be called a barbarian for killing seals.

You will know him by the blade he carries and the Dark-born skill with which he wields it, for none who know the love of the Father may defeat the Darkblade, yet all must stand against him.

The thought of you makes my days brighter and my nights filled with dreams.

Be transparent like glass, be flexible like water, and be attractive like a magnet.

The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist.

I want to use my gifts to tell the truth, and to tell it as beautifully as I can.

What will tell in the end will be character and not a knowledge of letters.

I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life.

Companies hire a lot during boom times because they're trying to adequately accelerate into the future.