You have to accept that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

A true leader listens more than they speak.

Food is the universal language of kindness.

"A personality is a full congress of orators and pressure groups, of children, demagogues, communists, isolationists, war mongers, mugwumps, grafters, prayer-makers, adventurers and clerks; with each of these in a minority of one."

The true investor welcomes volatility... a wildly fluctuating market means that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses.

The only thing that can change the world is love.

I would like to be remembered as someone who was able to help people express themselves and live in the moment.

The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.