Optimists think badly, but live well.

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

Philosophers console themselves with explanations.

The search for first causes is the ultimate wild goose chase.

When you separate thought from life, you get philosophy.

Logical positivism is philosophy from the neck up.

The questions philosophers ask are not so much meaningless as irrelevant.

No explanation is ever as good as not having one.

The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.

Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.

As I have said before, I had no illusions about my performing ability. But I did not know that my despair was brought about not because I had no talent but because I did not know how to develop it.

Every great man nowadays has his disciples and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

Love shall be our token love be yours and love be mine.

Each of us has a vital role to play in building a world in which the government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.

I think Unix is a great system - especially for running data centers - because it is very mature, very reliable, very scalable. But when I want to go out and populate small devices, I think Java.

I haven't slept properly for 12 years because of this bloody game. I don't think you do in a competitive game. You toss and turn and you don't sleep.

If you ever managed to make me cry, my tears would sear your face.

Fiction is an expressionist painting rather than a photograph.

The real traveller is the one who continues his journey even when the road ends!

I could eat gazpacho three times a day.