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"I do understand why a desperate engineer still use a hammerto solve a hard problem. I think, that made him more humane."

"Mindset Matters: Cut away the nonsense and cultivate an environment conducive to your personal well-being. Forgive yourself and others. Have the courage to move on. The battle is long... and in the end, it's only with yourself."


"I would miss Colby, but it wasn't going anywhere. All the more reason why I should."

"The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire."

"Notice when negativity spins in your head and disrupt it immediately before it has a chance to take hold and stick."

"Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down."


"I am so tired, I can hardly type these worfs."

"The greatest gift you can ever give yourself is to believe in oneself."

"The attitude of the city on his action was of no importance to him, not because he was going to leave the city, but because any outside attitude on the situation seemed superficial. He was completely indifferent to popular opinion."

"The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice."

"I can confidently state that the greatest rescues in my life have occurred when I've been saved from myself."

"A fresh year, a fresh life."

"I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre."

"In the end, every startup is different. But in the beginning every startup is the same."

"I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many."

"Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others."


"Claret is the liquor for boys port for men but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy."

"Prayer is one action where I lay aside my abilities to immerse myself wholly in God's capabilities. And the liberation found in such an action is less about being engaged with God and more about being freed from myself."

"It's thinking that I had the solution that probably created the problem in the first place."

"To find the magnificence of life, count your blessings."

"Note: addiction diverts attention."

"I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian, and who happened to write about Indians."


"I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world."

"Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism."

"At the same time I know that it's not really their fault, at least not completely. I did my part too. I did it on a hundred different days and in a thousand different ways, and I know it. But this makes the anger worse, not better."

"Remember, I was only in to fighting; I wasn't a high-ranking underworld figure selling the Crown Jewels! I wasn't the Merthyr Mafia and I had no connections with the goings on of petty criminal matters."

"While many people define being a man or a woman as being dependent on reproductive capacity, it is worth noting (should such a superficial argument present itself) that there are many males and females who are born male or female and cannot reproduce either. Are they to be considered 'not male' and 'not female'? Or does that only apply to transgender people?"

"I hate how long it takes to feel radical, militantly maternal self-acceptance."
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