It is the obliviousness of our children that saves us.
You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult...
Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.
Capture your youth, while you can.
You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.
Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.
We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.
We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.