All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.