The world was not big enough for Alexander the Great, but a coffin was. |

When everything is coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane. |

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it. |

Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file. |

Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude. |

Live every day like it's your last.
One day, you'll be right. |

Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself. |

People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments. |

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. |

Do not seek praise. Seek criticism. |

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. |

But for the poor of a country where corruption thieved a great deal of opportunity, corruption was one of the genuine opportunities that remained. |

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. |

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple. |

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. |

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying. |

A drawing of a tree shows not a tree but a tree being looked at. |

The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room. |

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in. |

This feeling of discomfort you have: If you can live with it your entire life, you’ll be unusually successful. Because you have to survive somehow. For those of you on autopilot, you don’t have to work that hard. That’s why I’ve changed fields a lot, because once I know how to do something, I lose interest. And you don’t grow. So I’d say it’s good you don’t fit in. |

Creativity could be described as letting go of certainties. |

Pessimism loves company. Optimism makes companies. |

Anybody who tries to change society without examining the family is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue. |

The screen provides a refuge, a mediated world that is more predictable, more tractable, and above all safer than the recalcitrant world of things.
We flock to the virtual because the real demands too much of us. |