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.

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.

Abraham Cahan

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

George Bernard Shaw

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

George Bernard Shaw

And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness.

Kristin Cashore

The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.

Sir Isaac Newton

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

J. B. (John Boynton) Priestley

I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing.

Colin Hay

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

Zig Ziglar

Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth

Gertrude Franklin Atherton

Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!

Nathan Hale

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

Joseph Stalin