Just because it's automatic doesn't mean it works.

Just because it's automatic doesn't mean it works.

I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces.

The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed.

The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast.

In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate.

I do engineering, not religion.

I won't be satisfied until I've put the entire security industry out of work.

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.

My idea of heaven is not writing.

I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

There was this thing written that I had gone into a candle store, and my hair went up in flames because of all the hair spray. First of all, I never have hair spray in my hair, and I've never even heard of this store, and my hair has never been burned.

For there is but one problem the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.

The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.

We had to do a lot of rehearsals to get it so that it was playable. What it did was make you practice. That's good for any musician to have that kind of pressure. It brings things out of you that might not come out if you don't have to reach for something all the time.

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life.

All your behavior results from the thoughts that precede it.

As cute as baby clothes are... I try to buy less.

Movies are the shadiest business in the world.

I personally believe that a democratic society is morally entitled to set and enforce a limit on the number of new immigrants admitted each year.

I did a film called 'Black Dynamite' that was very, very funny. That seems to be a film that's kind of a cult classic.

I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.

I went camping in the Maasai Mara and we moved site every night. I had no idea how spectacular it would be, how removed from ordinary life, or how many animals we would see.

It's easier to take than to give. It's nobler to give than to take. The thrill of taking lasts a day. The thrill of giving lasts a lifetime.

I've got thick skin and an elastic heart.

To believe the ridiculous requires the strictest logic.

The unknown is always frightening.

A couple of taxi drivers have asked me if we can survive financially as an independent nation. I say, how come we are more stupid than Denmark or Finland or Sweden? They've all got the same amount of people. Are we all going to down tools? Is everybody in Scotland going to stop working?

Whatever the reasons, would-be entrepreneurs should be forewarned. Going into business for yourself isn't just risky because your business might fail. It's risky because you might have a harder time getting a job in the future, even if you succeed with your company.

I never thought of myself as a writer.