On the fourth day of telecommuting, I realized that clothes are totally unnecessary.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

I love you like a fat kid loves cake!

The maintenance man is moving the thermostat in our office today. I started talking with him about the

Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.

You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.

Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.

In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasoning must depend.

There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. I was always taught to ask the first kind.

It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.

French women don't eat Wonder Bread.

I have a tremendous respect for writers who scribble away their torments, and their passions into plays.

When I stripped myself completely of pressure and thoughts of sponsors and realized I only love to climb, that's the day I did it.

Let the mind calm down and the heart start to open. Then everything will be very obvious.

It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.