Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work.

I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.

American Stance: Everything not forbidden is permitted. Prussian Stance: Everything not permitted is forbidden.

In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll laugh now at anyone who tries to invent a language without recursion.

The appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of its scope.

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.

I like a lot of things that aren't good for me.

I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself.

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

You know what is interesting, Condit is very conservative. He voted to post the ten commandments in schools. Yet, he himself broke the 11th commandment, 'Thou shall not put thy rod in thy staff.'

I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.

I want to say one word to you and this word is “Joy”. Wherever there are consecrated people, seminarians, men and women religious, young people, there is joy, there is always joy!

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

Different areas present us with possibilities to test different theories.