The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.
An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.
A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows
Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.
Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.
The fact that ACPI was designed by a group of monkeys high on LSD, and is some of the worst designs in the industry obviously makes running it at any point pretty damn ugly.
By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agree with my decisions, they know I'm not working against them.
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Our Republic is not a pastoral, not a military, not an agricultural, not a nomadic, not a clerical, but a business civilization. Nor is there anything random, casual or accidental about the United States as a business society. It is thoroughly well integrated - organized from top to bottom for the maximum efficiency of commerce and industry, for the maximum efficiency of making money.
To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.
I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.