It's easier to apologize afterwards than getting something allowed in the first place.

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm a scientist. Once I do something, I want to do something else.

Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?

Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.

I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it.

The Internet is a perfect diversion from learning... it opens many doors that lead to empty rooms.

Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought.

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

We'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure.

Perhaps he has confused making money with freedom.

I want to figure out how people can go on with their lives when mine has changed so much. I want to relearn how to breathe without carrying this big, empty cave inside me.

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was 'normal'.

Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.

About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down.

I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.

The lion's share of my work is revision, 85%? I revise forever, combing over lines, listening and listening to them in different hours and moods so that I feel they are finally right for me.

I can depend less and less on my own power and sense of direction...It is so strange to advance backwards and get where you are going in a totally unexpected way

In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden.