"Watch your back, but more importantly when you get out the shower, dry your back. Its a cold world out there."

“Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.”

“[The] amount of search is not a measure of the amount of intelligence being exhibited. What makes a problem a problem is not that a large amount of search is required for its solution, but that a large amount would be required if a requisite level of intelligence were not applied.”

Source : "Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search". Communications of the ACM 19 (3), (p. 122), March 1976.

“You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.”

Source : Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.96, Bloomsbury Publishing

“Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up and devoured those of the Egyptians.”

“The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.”

“By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.”

“You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.”

“Every song asks to be sung in a different way.”