To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Man will not live without answers to his questions.
Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.
The statesman must think in terms of the national interest, conceived as power among other powers. The popular mind, unaware of the fine distinctions of the statesman's thinking, reasons more often than not in the simple moralistic and legalistic terms of absolute good and absolute evil.
Political realism is aware of the moral significance of political action. It is also aware of the ineluctable tension between the moral command and the requirements of successful political action. And it is unwilling to gloss over and obliterate that tension and thus to obfuscate both the moral and the political issue by making it appear as though the stark facts of politics were morally more satisfying than they actually are, and the moral law less exacting than it actually is.
Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.
Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.
It is the role of the artistic coder to question the coding languages, both through self-reflection and by using them for unintended purposes. These coders introduce multiplicity where none existed and challenge definitions of intent for the entire environment of programming language, machine and system.
The various languages placed side by side show that with words it is never a question of truth, never a question of adequate expression; otherwise, there would not be so many languages. The 'thing in itself' (which is precisely what the pure truth, apart from any of its consequences, would be) is likewise something quite incomprehensible to the creator of language and something not in the least worth striving for.
I'll always push the envelope. To me, the ultimate sin in life is to be boring. I don't play it safe.
Survival is not important. What matters is how you survive.