I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he turn to the novel.

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

Talent is God-given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

In the world of computing, the boundary between the possible and the impossible is often defined by the algorithms we can devise.