One of my few childhood memories is as an eight-year-old, refused permission to watch the Hitchcock season on Irish television, sneakily viewing 'The Birds' though a crack in the living-room door. It transformed my hitherto perfectly enjoyable half-m...
There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. There's a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful.
You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.
In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.
The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment.
My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.
Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.
Chance favors the prepared mind.
I don't suppose I'll ever retire completely.
Defect-free software does not exist.
Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don't have food - that's not news. This is grave. We can't rest easy while things are this way.
Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.
Death is staring too long into the burning sun and the relief of entering a cool, dark room.
I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul.
This country is undergoing great changes for the better.
J. Alfred Prufrock measured his life out in coffee spoons. I measure mine out in pages.
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
There isn't a person on Earth who couldn't use a connection with nature.
But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.
Academic success depends on research and publications.
