I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.

The quality of an organization's systems determines the quality of its processes.

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."

I don't have to be anything other than what I am.

"The novel is a mirror that reflects the complexities of society, and the novelist is the one who polishes that mirror."

Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible.