"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

"Sometimes the best way to escape is to face what you're running from."

I do not think anything that I have done is of any interest to the general public.

The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.

Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.

The future of energy lies in balancing economic growth with environmental stewardship.