Vladimir Nabokov

Caress the detail, the divine detail.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.