To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.

Every man's own satisfaction is the centre of all that he looks at.

"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."

"We are all made of stories, and those stories are made of time."

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.