"We give people fish. We teach them to fish. We tear down the walls that have been built up around the fish pond. And we figure out who polluted it."

“Coldly and capriciously the slanting sunbeams fall.”

Source : Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary (1850). “Poems of Alice and Phoebe Carey ...”, p.69

“In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.”

Source : "Program Development by Stepwise Refinement". Communications of the ACM, 14 (4), April 1971.

“Mistakes were made long ago. It is someone else's fault. We can't be held responsible, but we are very sorry.”

Source : Kyle Minor (2008). “In the Devil's Territory: Stories”

“You get a wonderful view from the point of no return.”

Source : Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld”, p.281, Random House

“For me, when we came out with a TV show, my HBO show, so much of the feedback was, "How do I do it?" And my response was always the same: "Just make something." Stop talking about it. You do in a way that the work takes on a life of its own. Like the "Signature" series [(2008), in which the artist trekked across the United States in the shape of his own signature] was a simple concept that became this story about the people you met along the way.”

Source : "Marc Horowitz". Interview with Casey Neistat, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 3, 2010.

“When a warrior has put an end to his routines, when he doesn't care anymore whether he has company or is alone, because he has heard the silent whisper of the spirit; then you can say that, truly, he has died. From that point on, even the simplest things in life become extraordinary for him.”

“When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.”

“How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him”