If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?

Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

As long as we can make them smaller, we can make them faster.

Parity is for farmers.

A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.'

I live right under the Hollywood sign, so that every day when I drive home I'm reminded of why I'm here.

As for my religion, I worship Jesus.

To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope.

In the long run there is not much discrimination against superior talent.

When they throw punches, the breathing, the sparring. The heavy bags being hit. All of that - it was a heavenly sound to me.

Intuition goes before you, showing you the way. Emotion follows behind, to let you know when you go astray. Listen to your inner voice. It is the calling of your spiritual GPS system seeking to keep you on track towards your true destiny.

People don't need to necessarily see me in the jersey to understand who I am and what message I'm trying to get across with the things that I'm marketing.

Friendship and sentiment and the giving of one's words are very important.

I only know about a few things, but I am quite good at bluffing. There are a whole range of subjects, including the Renaissance, which I am prepared to sound expert on.

Theres a harsh reality nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow and grow fast.

I'm standing for real freedom.

Telling it like it is means telling it like it was and how it is now that it isn't what it was to the is now people.

The kids that are different and out there and expressive and are bold with those choices, those are the people that grow up to be people we all want to hang out with, that become celebrities or become really successful in what they do because they believe in who they are.

The joy of brightening other lives bearing each others burdens easing others loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of the holidays.

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

God gave me a great body and its my duty to take care of my physical temple.

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

Australia is a remarkable country with incredible technical and physical resources and a capacity to be a world leader in renewables.

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

I follow politics in a big way, and always have since I was a kid. I've got opinions, but they're opinions on both sides - not just anti-Republican, which is a real popular thing for a rap artist to do. If you dis Republicans, nobody will get mad. I think the two-party system sucks. It's absolutely ignorant.

The aim of militants such as Boko Haram, whose very name means 'Western education is a sin,' is to sow hatred and enmity between Muslim and Christian communities, which have co-existed largely peacefully for generations. Education, in particular the education of women, is a threat to Boko Haram's goals.

I eat breakfast pretty much 'round the clock - muffins in the morning, scones for lunch, cereal at night - which may be odd but is also oddly satisfying, if only because the choice is my own.