"When you think of me as a football player, I would like for people to think that I put it on the line every time. Good or bad, win or lose, I put it on the line."

“Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.”

“You can achieve almost any goal you set for yourself as long as you have the discipline to pay the price to do what you need to do and to never give up. You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.”

“The initial motive for developing APL was to provide a tool for writing and teaching. Although APL has been exploited mostly in commercial programming, I continue to believe that its most important use remains to be exploited: as a simple, precise, executable notation for the teaching of a wide range of subjects.”

Source : "A Personal View of APL". IBM Systems Journal, 30 (4), 1991.

“I had a general outline of subjects. The way I start my days is my husband brings me a thermos of coffee up to the bedroom.”

Source : Source: www.hbook.com

“If my whole game depends on whether you can guess the ending or not, I'm done, forget it.”

Source : "'Hunted' creator Frank Spotnitz on his new Cinemax drama & 'The X-Files' legacy". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. October 19, 2012.

“Actually, it's nice when people hate what you do, because it's still a passionate feeling about it. It's kind of when they're indifferent, you're like, "Oh, well, what am I really doing?" It's nice to go one way or the other.”

Source : Source: www.empireonline.com

“Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws.”

“I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.