Panic is highly contagious, especially in situations when nothing is known and everything is in flux.

It was always a pleasure to write. I can never think of a time when I just hacked something out to fulfil a contract or meet a deadline. I might have hacked things out, but it was always stuff I loved.

It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves.

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end and ka is always served.

I choose to believe in God because it makes things better.

He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially--not in a sugary way but in a businesslike fashion that may sometimes entail a hug, in the same way that closing a big business deal may call for a handshake.