"They [Didier Dubot ] approached me to do a collaboration and I just couldn't say no because I really loved the collaborations they did before."

“Death," said Akiva. His life was leaving him fast now that he no longer held his wound. His eyes just wanted to drift closed. "I'm ready." "Well, I'm not. I hear it's dull, being dead." She said it lightly, amused, and he peered up at her. Had she just made a joke? She smiled. Smiled He did, too. Amazed, he felt it happening, as if her smile had triggered a reflex in him. "Dull sounds nice," he said, letting his eyes flutter closed. "Maybe I can catch up on my reading.”

“It is only alone, truly alone that one bursts apart, springs forth.”

Source : Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta, Maria Velho da Costa (1975). “The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters”, p.347

“There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.”

“Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime.”

“A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.”

Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

“Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.”

“I meditate and pray before going onstage - it helps me focus.”

“I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.”