"My job is to help you fall in love."

“Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.”

Source : Caroline Pratt (2014). “I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education”, p.64, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

“When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety.”

“I have actually programmed a fair bit in Perl, like I have C++ code published with my name on it. Other things I have tried and have no intention to do again if I can at all avoid it include smoking, getting drunk enough to puke and waste the whole next day with hang-over, breaking a leg in a violent car crash, getting mugged in New York City, or travel with Aeroflot.”

Source : Re: How is perl braindamaged? (was Re: Is LISP dying?) (Usenet article), groups.google.com. July 28, 1999.

“No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.”

“If artists do have ideas, they're often not great.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com

“I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large bodies of water. The horizon is dark blue, smoothly turning to black. . . the feelings which filled me I can express with one word-joy.”

“I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.”

“The trailblazers are my role models in this industry: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, and Billy Dee Williams. I keep their pictures in my trailer and try to measure to their standards every time I act.”