If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

The first fruit of this imagination—and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it—is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.