"I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next"
"One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures"
"Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual"
"Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality"
"And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction"
"Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success"
"Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming"
"Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive"
"Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place"