All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
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.
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 like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.
I am a big Brian Eno fan - the first few Brian Eno records are just absolute gibberish and he came up with a lot of lyrics by writing down loads and loads of random sentences and streams, and I find meaning in that music, even though he'd probably say it's absolute gibberish.
No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you weep for pain. The kite is pursued by the crows so long as it carries the fish in its beak, it twists and turns in the sky trying to last and it drops the fish. That moment it is free. So give up the attachment to the senses; then grief and worry can harass you no more.
If you`re wanting to do policy, it should be bipartisan.
In the garden the door is always open into the "holy" - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death.