History is littered with dead good men
There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.
A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.
If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.
It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.
There's no question that males are more violent and more prone to the type of hierarchical organizations that lead to war. War is largely a male activity. In fact, there is some correlation [between making war and] having an excess of males in the population.
Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say
I don't like talking about sequels or spinoffs or franchise until they actually happen, until they actually work with the audience.
The minute you feel like you've completed something you lose that momentum. I've learned how to avoid that. That's the bottom line.
She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly - it was not like she was cutting hair, it was as if I had a pair of wings beneath my shoulder-blades, that the flesh had all grown over, and she was slicing free.
How did the Turks become Muslim? They became Muslim through the Sufis. The Arabs never conquered the Turks. There were people in early Islam who were speaking like Hallaj, who spoke about the Truth, about reaching the Truth, about being one with the Truth, and not only they were not killed, but they were great heroes of their own culture, and there is a university in Turkey named after one [Sufi Saint. ]