What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?

The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste mental energy.

Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas.

Having a perilous adventure is always better than comatose safety. Always, always, always, always, always.

Deliberate choices are the only sacred things in the universe. Everything else is just hydrogen.

I do not care about the greatest good for the greatest number . . . Most people are poop-heads I do not care about them at all.

You don’t free yourself from duty by running away. That only increases the weight on your shoulders.

Ah, but I am more perceptive than most of the universe. Especially the parts of the universe that are vacuum.

I hated relying on luck. When it worked, it made me feel so damned eerie.

Don't be a little paranoid; worry about everything, or let it all go.

That's the first rule of command; be consistent! You can be sadistic, you can be lazy, you can be stupid, but if you're consistent the crew will still let you sit in when they play dominoes.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Money is not my definition of success

Trust is believing "I will be safe with you". Love is striving to keep the trust.

Where personal experience is concerned, we all speak a different language.

I'm as far away from technology as possible. But I like to be as present as possible.

People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.

The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.

MOST LIES succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them.

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.

Conjunctivitis.com — that’s a site for sore eyes.