The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.

Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.

Hardware works best when it matters the least.

Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

She pondered the arrangements of the paintings on a wall like a writer pondered commas.

Summer was a lady who didn't give up her spotlight easily.

Language as well as the faculty of speech was the immediate gift of God.

Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.

I've always felt a certain guilt to have them labeled as 'Christina's sisters' or, 'That's Christina's mom' but them looking for the respect to be named Elizabeth and Danielle and Carmen.

You know, when you have a father who's pretty well known but you don't see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people.

Your aspirations are your possibilities.

Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.

Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.