"For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited."

“When I broke my arm, I knew there was something a lot bigger than baseball (about to happen) ... I had a sense that God had something for me, something bigger than baseball.”

“A thorough: miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in a better cause, would make a saint or a martyr.”

Source : William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.426

“The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.”

“It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.”

“There are some people who think you have to hate them in order to shoot them. I don't think you do. It's just business.”

“Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 25, 2011

“That's not writing, that's typing”

“When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.”

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