We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.
I have a horror of being in confined spaces.
Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.
Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.
The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs. Right practice aims at preventing insertion of errors and, failing that, removing them before testing or any other running of the program.
When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.
I have a lot of mirrors around my house, not because I like to look at myself, but because I like the light and perspective they bring to a room.
It is an odd fact that what we now know of the mental and emotional life of infants surpasses what we comprehend about adolescents. . . . That they do not confide in us is hardly surprising. They use wise discretion in disguising themselves with the caricatures we design for them. And unfortunately for us, as for them, too often adolescents retain the caricatured personalities they had merely meant to try on for size.
We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.
Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful.
We have been sitting here all night bullshitting and we still don’t know what to do.