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.

Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy.

I'm not the best athlete.

I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How Im being drowned by some kind of black wave.

Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

If we leave the European Union, there will be an immediate economic shock that will hit financial markets. People will not know what the future looks like.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose is the next best.

Casting is really exciting. With 'Twilight,' I wasn't involved at all with the casting in the original. They kept me in the loop, which was great. They'd be like, 'Hey Kristen Stewart's gonna do it' and I was like, 'Really? Awesome.'

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

Having someone from Washington, California, or Chicago come in as a verifier, it shows the Hispanic community that Hispanic leaders support me.

'Baker Towers' is the book I've always known I would write, but it wasn't an easy book to do.

Seek home for rest, for home is best.

I do go back to Russia frequently, about twice a year. I hate the flight, but it's worth it. My parents have a home in a little village of 12 houses. It's not on any map, so unless you know it's there, you won't find it. Nothing works there; no Internet, no cell phone, and the land line only works sometimes. It's great!

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

'Lincoln' was OK; I thought it was a rock-solid eight out of 10, but it shouldn't win all the awards.

I think it's inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a totally sovereign-independent 21st century nation 12,000 miles from the United Kingdom.

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?

I was a closet straight. I think I wanted to be gay because I thought it was arty and interesting. And also, I was phenomenally shy with girls.

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

I will overlook bad behavior if I know that people's intentions are good. I have this belief that people really can do good things and that people want to be good.

Fashion is a great thing, it's a way to express who you are.

I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that. And then the fact that my children are okay. You know, you're only as happy as your least happy child. So if your kids aren't okay, you're not good.

The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth.