"Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species. To drink beer is to be human."

“When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?”

“The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.”

“If I listened to my instincts, I'd be down at the pub chasing women, not under a 400 pound bar squatting”

“I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.”

Source : "Sheryl Sandberg: the first lady of Facebook takes the world stage" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2012.

“Anyone who consistently makes you feel bad is not helping you get better.”

“To produce a really good biological theory one must try to see through the clutter produced by evolution to the basic mechanisms lying beneath them, realizing that they are likely to be overlaid by other, secondary mechanisms. What seems to physicists to be a hopelessly complicated process may have been what nature found simplest, because nature could only build on what was already there.”

“I believe anybody who tells you he is unbiased is a liar. Being human gives you bias, and you can't avoid that. The best you can ever hope to be is fair.”

“I think the most effective way to run a kitchen is to teach, not to just yell.”