As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim

Treat your life like something to be sculpted.

The Product of Freedom and Security is a constant (F X S = k). Giving up freedom for security is beginning to look naive.

In a collaboration, each author will do 75% of the work.

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

For each human being there is an optimum ratio between change and stasis. Too little change, he grows bored. Too little stability, he panics and loses his ability to adapt. One who marries six times in ten years won't change jobs. One who moves often to serve his company will maintain a stable marriage. A woman chained to one home and family may redecorate frantically or take a lover or go to many costume parties.