The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

"Reading is an act of empathy."

Every building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward.

The best way to document a program is to document it.

I don’t believe in regrets. I believe in lessons learned.

"The world is full of stories, but it takes a special kind of person to hear them."