Russian literature saved my soul. When I was a young girl in school and I asked what is good and what is evil, no one in that corrupt system could show me.

The calendar? A mere convention.

Courage is the ability to make yourself take action in spite of your fear.

When a moral man speaks, listen. But when immoral men speak, toss away their words like bad fruit. Truth will never shine from a heart filled with corruption and lies.

The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.

Sometimes I think change is a good thing.

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

Spirituality: the last refuge of a failed human. Just another way of distracting yourself from who you really are.

For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works.

Television and I grew up together.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.