Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.

What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write.

Of persons I will say this: it is difficult to tell when they are running aright but easy to see when something has gone awry.

Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.

I actually don't think that there is a connection between the survival instinct and a hunger for immortality.

If the item of stolen property had been anything other than a book, it would have been confiscated. But a book is different - it is not just a material possession but the pathway to an enlightened mind, and thence to a well-ordered society.