They never noticed that he was in fact what they only pretended to be. - Orson Scott Card

Maybe if I could bear my life as it is for one day, for one hour, for one minute, I could forget my wish to be something else.

Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey.

Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.