You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

Great results, can be achieved with small forces.

After five seconds there was a click, and the entire Universe was there in the box with him.

We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

Continuing to do stand-up is always a challenge because the audiences and the environments in which you work very often differ.

Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology.

Washington is a place where people have always been suspect of style and overt sexuality. Too much preening signals that you're not up late studying cap-and-trade agreements.

I initially thought you were ugly, but then you walked closer to me and I realized you were pretty.

I'd say we [Apple Inc.] are the most creative of the technology companies and definitely the most artist-friendly. Almost everyone in the music business uses a Mac and everyone has an iPod.