It had been an embarrassing moment, like the one you get when you realize for the first time that you have what it takes to become an accountant.

The coding was anachronistic, kind of like bokeh in a renaissance painting.

Simon did not solve problems, he just shamed them into going away.

Many things have been compared to a brick, mainly as a tribute to their intellect or to their aerodynamic characteristics.

He spoke in a trembling voice that didn’t seem to be entirely in sync with the movement of his lips. That’s because sound travels slower in halitosis.

Some say one thing and do another. Others say one thing and do it just for spite. I say nothing and do whatever the hell I want.

There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand', meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.

To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.

For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any religion.

Power is the ability to get things done

Atheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose.