"I'm a cynical optimist. I believe things will get better, but I don't think it's going to be easy."

"I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin."

"The future is a thing that is perpetually breaking in upon the present."

"Nolite te bastardes carborundorum."

"The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love."