Let my children have music! Let them hear live music.
What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write.
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.
Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds.
When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.
You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake.
See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places.
One of the joys of writing music is making your own mark. Study other stuff, immerse yourself in music and then tell your own truth.
Money, first and foremost, is a medium of communication, conveying the information we call 'price'. Government control of the money supply is censorship, a violation of the First Amendment. Inflation is a lie.
The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real
Today it's fashionable to talk about the New Economy, or the Information Economy, or the Knowledge Economy. But when I think about the imperatives of this market, I view today's economy as the Value Economy. Adding value has become more than just a sound business principle; it is both the common denominator and the competitive edge.