"One morning, I awoke to find my two neighbours dead by my side. The day before, sleeping in the same straw, we had spoken a little — to reassure ourselves and each other."

"I believe Al-Qaeda today resembles the Leninist, or Communist, movement, before it came to power in 1917, or the Zionist movement of Herzl, before Ben-Gurion brought it to power in Israel."

"In today's computer science curricula … almost all their time is devoted to formal classification of syntactic language types, defeatist unsolvability theories, folklore about systems programming, and…"

"The most significant indicator of people’s character comes through their actions over time. Despite what people say about the lessons they have learned , and how they have changed over the years, you …"

"Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes."