Microsoft is no longer thought of as the company where the smartest people want to work.

Like IBM, the company [Microsoft] seems to have been spooked by the federal antitrust action against it and became increasingly sclerotic and less inventive.

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection.

If you can continue to smile through hardship and pain, then your moment will come…just be patient.

I don't ever want to have kids of my own. But I do want a lot of kids.

I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed.

In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.

I make fun of people who are religious, because they're fundamentally weak.

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own.

Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it.