Having a perilous adventure is always better than comatose safety. Always, always, always, always, always.

Everyone's life is a mess. Everyone's. We all make mistakes . . . and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people.

What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?

Don't be a little paranoid; worry about everything, or let it all go.

I do not care about the greatest good for the greatest number . . . Most people are poop-heads I do not care about them at all.

Ah, but I am more perceptive than most of the universe. Especially the parts of the universe that are vacuum.

I hated relying on luck. When it worked, it made me feel so damned eerie.