The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as to make his work indistinguishable from nature itself.

On the value of blind shots to golf course design.

I try to build courses for the most enjoyment by the greatest number.

I have always wanted to live where one could practice (golf) shots in one's pajamas before breakfast.

The more I think I know I realize, the more that is left unknown and that's the best part.

Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

I love to negotiate things, I do it really well, and all that stuff. But it's possible I won't be able to get along with Putin.

Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

It's never a metric, it's where the person is going or not. Metrics are used to make things work better, but don't necessarily make a business better.

The Eerie Silence: are we alone in the universe?

I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors.