My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned.

Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or possibly accessible to the poet or, say, the acutest poet.

Wallace Stevens, Adagia

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

David Bowie

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Arthur Koestler

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Shana Alexander

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

John Steinbeck

Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.

Edward Hoagland

Beside her, she can feel each breath he draws. How is it possible to be so close to a person and still not know what you are to each other? With baseball, it's simple. There's no mystery to what happens on the field because everything has a label -- full count, earned run, perfect game -- and there's a certain amount of comfort in this terminology. There's no room for confusion and Ryan wishes now that everything could be so straightforward. But then Nick pulls her closer, and she rests her head on his chest, and nothing seems more important that this right here.

Jennifer E. Smith

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

Elizabeth Edwards

Don't be stupid, it's a flying house!

J.K. Rowling

I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool.

William Shakespeare

Its not true that men forget theyre married when they see a pretty woman. Just the opposite, thats when theyre most painfully reminded of it.

Mark Twain

When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves

George Bernard Shaw