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.

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

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

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

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

In every experience we get to choose either love or fear as a response. Your character is formed by the percentages of those choices, which then forms your life.

I am not surprised by any situation. The Saviour is my strength.

Money is the medium of exchange, and it's how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.

How do we change the world? Change the story.

The smartest person in the room, is the room.

Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!

Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.

to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world.

Mankind is a dream of a shadow.

So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.