Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.
I've gone fishing thousands of times in my life, and I have never once felt unlucky or poorly paid for those hours on the water.
The trout that seem to stick in my memory the finest aren't the big ones, and maybe it's because I have't visited all the corners of the globe, but my most unforgettable trout all lived close to home. In fact, when I take out my pouch of trout memories and spill them all on the table, it seems that the smaller ones shine the brightest.
Everything characters say or do is a clue to their personalities, their histories, and the forces that motivate them.
There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
The Great Work - the work of ensuring a just, healthy, beautiful, and sustainably life-giving world for future generations of all species.
See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.
The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.