"That is the beauty of cancer, it tells you that your days are limited, that you could die at any point. It is that perspective that allows you to live a better life while you're here."

“I call wild ***** together like Cyrus, And knock off more birds than the West Nile Virus.”

“The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.”

Source : "The humble programmer" by Edsger Dijkstra in "Communications of the ACM", Volume 15, Issue 10 (pp. 859-866), dl.acm.org. October 1972.

“Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.”

“Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.”

Source : "Poet, pike and a pitiful grouse". Interview with Thomas Pero, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 1999.

“I have no sense of humor about losing”

“You see, I went to the sixth grade and that was the highest I ever went.”

“The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.”

Source : "he Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance". Book by Laurie Garrett, 1995.

“Some people are really good at packaging themselves, but that's not really me.”