Mathematics and art are quite different. We could not publish so many papers that used, repeatedly, the same idea and still command the respect of our colleagues.

Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see its light shining on you.

The pink-haired boy is scared, so incredibly scared - only the thing you've most wished for can scare you in that way.

Coffee in England is just toasted milk.

Human beings are no damn good, ” he said. “We are even worse than animals. We like ...”He trailed off, cleared his throat, but his voice hardly reached a whisper.“We like monsters, ” he said.

I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.

When I was younger - it might be a romantic idea - I always thought I might go crazy.

I wasn't really aware they were a religious organization for quite some time. But my grandparents were very devout and ran a Quaker meetinghouse and were missionaries at one point.

Contrary to the foolish notion that syntax is immaterial, people optimize the way they express themselves, and so express themselves differently with different syntaxes.

Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.

Hopefully, kids realize you can do anything you want. Skateboarding can be that gateway.

Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.