First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously.

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

Sigmund Freud

I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

Terry Pratchett

Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

Audre Lorde

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

Louis Pasteur

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

Byron White

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

Mark Twain

If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.

Harold Abelson

I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down.

Shannon Hale

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Raymond Chandler