It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.

So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.

They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction.'Poor Grendel's had an accident, ' I whisper. 'So may you all.

My advice to you, my violent friend, is to seek out gold and sit on it.

When I was a child I truly loved:Unthinking love as calm and deepAs the North Sea. But I have lived, And now I do not sleep.

What do you call the Hrothgar-wrecker when Hrothgar has been wrecked?

I had a chance. I knew I had no more than that. it's all a hero asks for.

All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal — a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world — two snake pits.

It's not easy to kill a mountain goat. He thinks with his spine.

Being classy is my teenage rebellion.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Kant thinks we can show that there is no contradiction in supposing we are free.

A kiss from my mother made me a painter.

The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that's not possible to ensure that there is an alternative to violence.

I expect celibacy of any person that is not married.

Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?

I don't know what another actor is going to give me, on the day, and I don't want to be so hard and fast in my technique that I'm not open to what's coming.

Most people's lives are a direct reflection of their peer groups.

Coming back to the topic of computer security, the TCP Wrapper is an example of such a safety net. I wrote it when my systems were under attack by someone who appeared to walk through walls.