The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste mental energy.

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

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

Deliberate choices are the only sacred things in the universe. Everything else is just hydrogen.

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.

It is strange how the presence of additional people can make you feel more alone.

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.