Rank and expertise do not necessarily coincide.

The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization.

Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy.

Your beliefs are cause maps that you impose on the world, after which you 'see' what you have already imposed.

Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do.

If people have multiple identities and deal with multiple realities, why should we expect them to be ontological purists?

The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, "Did I make the best use of the time I had?

What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.

I can't have a daily routine. I feel really overwhelmed a lot of the time. I don't take much comfort in routine, but if I don't start, I could really get eaten alive by my industry.

There is hinkiness afoot with regard to my, ah, disposition.

And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.

By learning to contact, listen to, and act on our intuition, we can directly connect to the higher power of the universe and allow it to become our guiding force.

I learned that from my dad: you put your heart into something, you have to protect it, what you're making.

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed.

There's no winning arguments with your parents