Nothing in the world is so compelling to the emotions as the mind of another human being
I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.
Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray. (when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac )
One of my guiding principles is don't do anything that other people are doing. Always do something a little different if you can. The concept is that if you do it a little differently there is a greater potential for reward than if you the same thing that other people are doing. I think that this kind of goal for one's work, having obviously the maximum risk, would have the maximum reward no matter what the field may be.
Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.
People get tired of talking about American exceptionalism, but I think this is an extraordinary thing about the United States, that we are a nation of immigrants, first of all, that is built upon a pluralistic society of native people that were here to begin with. The issue of diversity is really with us from the beginning.
Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.
I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of men in clubs and public-houses; of miners half naked in drawers the forthright, perfectly unassuming, and without end in view except dinner, love, money and getting along tolerably; that which is without great hopes, ideals, or anything of that kind; what is unassuming except to make a tolerably, good job of it. I like all that.
The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.