“You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you?" Elayne asked. "I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more.”

“Why can’t you ever answer a simple question? (Wulf)
Ask me a simple question and you will get a simple answer. (Acheron)”

“Maybe people only ask you how you're doing
'Cos that's easier than letting on how little they could care.”

“To ask the hard question is simple,
The simple act of the confused will.”

“Do you love him?"
There were only a few people in the world who could ask me such insanely personal questions without getting punched. Dimitri was one of them.”

“People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.”

“Ask a simple question, get a simple brick wall.”

“So are you bisexual?” I had asked, and Todd had laughed at my insistence on label.

“I guess I'm bipossible,” he had said.”

“People will only follow you if they see you're ahead, are convinced you know the route, trust you, and want to get there too.”

“Of course, the test difficulty depends on what you're doing, and on how you're doing it. I'm constantly asking "How much would I have to screw this up to write an incorrect function that passes these simple tests?" Occasionally the answer is "Not much," so I'll throw the code away and start over. It was probably perfect code, but that's not good enough.”