If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence.

A data structure is just a stupid programming language.

It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib.

Reminding me how fragile this life is and how easily it can be lost. Compelling me to live and to live well, while I still can.Because sooner or later, we must all face eternity.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

When I sing or play music, I'm able to relieve myself of whatever it is that I'm struggling with.

We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.

If Beethoven were sent to nursery school today, they would medicate him, and he would be a postal clerk.

Second freshness - that's what is nonsense! There is only one freshness - the first - and it is also the last. And if sturgeon is of the second freshness, that means it is simply rotten.

There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege to work with over the years.

I believe that this whole question of some photography being true and some untrue is a non-question. Photography is not objective; it never was objective.

Mozart 's music is very mysterious.

We [United States] are the only military superpower. We have no idea how long this is going to last, so we ought to get every bad guy we can and fix every problem we can.