The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals.

It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.

Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey.

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.

Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.

He's not a killer. He just wins... Thoroughly

Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.