"Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you."

Sustainable fishing isn't an option—it's the only way forward if we want to preserve marine ecosystems.

"The act of reading is as creative as the act of writing."

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.

The best ideas come from listening, not just talking.