Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.

Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?

I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.

Am I about to feel really, really stupid?

Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.

Failure is always an option.

I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.

The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

Don't work for fools. It's not worth it. Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book. Also, when I write letters, I spend the next two days thinking about what I figured out in my letters.

Rich people think long term. they balance their spending on enjoyment today with investing fore freedom tomorrow.

Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful.

I got mouths to feed til they put flowers on me.

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

What we know and believe is just a program; it is nothing but words, opinions, and ideas we learn from others and from our own life experience.

We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.

The battle against the Devil, which is the principal task of Saint Michael the Archangel, is still being fought today, because the Devil is still alive and active in the world.

In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.

I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare.