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.

Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character.

Roses are my favourite flower, and my mum always grew a lot of them.

I admire tremendously those people who work consistently at the same jobs.

It doesn't make sense that there is only one way of dealing with cancer.

There's such an energy bounding around New York, I can't help but get swept along in it.

If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing.