I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman? "Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes.

Imagine how they would have mocked you if you proclaimed, 'Not only is the world a sphere, but there is an invisible, mystical force that holds everything to its surface'!

I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.

I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments.

If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong!

Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.