Writing system software is like planning a family.If you make a mistake you have to live with it for 20 years.

I would say I am very much more interested in ethics than in code/ morality. I think it's in this way that one avoids the conservatism inherent in "the moral".

I like the idea of being a postmodern moral philosopher - or perhaps a perverse moral philosopher.

I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.

There are people who will appreciate what I've done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have the final say.

Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.

I either eat too much or starve myself. Sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. Fall in love very hard or hate passionately. I don't know what grey is. I never did.

When you are not free, you are not creating; you are being created.

Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.

Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs and ecosystems that's happening beneath the surface.

You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do.

If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.