“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”
“Remember, he was a fanatic, and there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.”
Hercule Poirot’s Early Cases (1974)
“Your capacity to own something is your capacity to change something.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 156
Re: Learning curve for common lisp http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/4356934aa0d7c2fe (Usenet article).
Usenet articles, C++
Livewire interview (2002)
Context: Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write. I didn't like writing "Heathen". There was something so ominous and final about it. It was early in the morning, the sun was rising and through the windows I could see two deer grazing down below in the field. In the distance a car was driving slowly past the reservoir and these words were just streaming out and there were tears running down my face. But I couldn't stop, they just flew out. It's an odd feeling, like something else is guiding you, although forcing your hand is more like it.
