My dad worked for different companies that made whiskey for a long time, so we were definitely whiskey drinkers. Growing up, my friends would get toy cars, and I would get swag from whisky companies.

Software is like gardening - one day I'll go behind the shed and clean up. But if nobody ever goes there, does it matter a lot?

Actions undertaken in anger, only result in pain, sorrow, and regret.

It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes.

Dreams have a way of persisting. They just don't come true until you DO what you CAN.

Chose you this day whom, not tomorrow, whom you'll serve?

I know this because Tyler knows this.

Whatever anybody wants to say about my sister, [Eva Braun] was always beautifully dressed with a great flair for fashion. [Adolf] Hitler was not this way.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.

I don't think it's entirely paranoid to suspect that one day, you won't be able to so much as question the primary tenets of anti-racism without going to jail.

The existence of mysterious relations between all these different domains is the most striking and delightful feature of mathematics (having no rational explanation).