"I was once hired to develop a Windows-based chemistry library for a company that builds reactors that burn toxic metal waste into harmless substances (really). (1993/11)"

"I'm a nit, what can I say? (1994/12)"

"OK, I admit it. I'm like you."

"Like I said, you're damned either way. (1993/10)"

"...you'll screw everything up. (1994/10)"

"Stop beating your head, you might hurt yourself. (1995/8)"

"What are you doing, anyway? Writing code for IBM? (1996/1)"

"...why are you doing these things? Don't. (1993/12)"

"..even MSJ readers will tire of watching Bill Gates adjust his glasses. (1995/10)"

"...[some code] looks disgusting, but that's life. (1993/6)"

"The implementation is brainless (various)"

"Don't do it! (1993/10)"

"A bug! A bug! Isn’t it just so satisfying to discover bugs in other people’s programs? Especially people from Microsoft. I don’t know why, it’s probably some kind of Freudian code-envy thing."

"It may seem kludgy, but hey - it works! (1994/3)"

"So? If you don't like it, write your own [program]. (1995/10)"

"Reusability, man. (1995/10)"

"Pretty simple. Except for one little problem: it doesn't work! (various)"

"But hey, I only work here. Besides, it works. (1995/6)"

"To be honest, there's something a little weird about this. (1995/4)"

"...perhaps this is a "feature", not a bug...."

"...my Trusty Friends in Redmond..."

"I grew up as a teenager listening to a really lot of heavy stuff. I was definitely a Slayer kid and Testament and the harder metal. I was definitely not a glam rocker."

"...the most recent tracks I've written on (the debut CD) were ... Frozen' and 'I Believe You."

"(The story behind the name Celldweller) is hard to trace back completely but I guess in 1992 sometime, I wrote a song called 'Helldweller' and my studios and even places I have lived have traditionally been in basements. In cellars, so to speak. I am also a fairly introverted guy and I hardly ever come out. It was almost a joke initially from family and friends calling me a cell dweller or a cellar dweller. It evolved into Celldweller although that name holds more significance than that. Celldweller is more symbolic of an internal bondage, being restricted and retained internally so the name has many meanings. At the end of the day, it rolls off the tongue very easily so there it is."

"...primarily when I write, I use guitars and organic instruments because that's easier to write to but at the end of the day, the electronic side of things, that's my true passion."

"At some point along the way, people had introduced me to bands like Depeche Mode and stuff that was on the softer side of electronic music and that completely intrigued me because of the sonic capabilities and possibilities. I got intrigued with that and then somewhere along the way somebody handed me a Skinny Puppy record and I think that changed my musical life."

"As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old."

"Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness."

"Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn."

"By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education."

"Change is not merely necessary to life; it is life. By the same token, life is adaptation. There are, however, limits on adaptability. When we alter our life style, when we make and break relationships with things, places or people, when we move restlessly through the organizational geography of society, when we learn new information and ideas, we adapt; we live. Yet there are finite boundaries; we are not infinitely resilient. Each orientation response, each adaptive reaction exacts a price, wearing down the body's machinery bit by minute bit, until perceptible tissue damage results. Thus man remains in the end what he started as in the beginning: a biosystem with a limited capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the consequence is future shock."

"If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether."

"Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it. The acceleration of change in our time is, itself, an elemental force. This accelerative thrust has personal and psychological, as well as sociological, consequences."

"…the sudden rise of a religious movement in the West that restricts the eating of beef and thereby saves billions of tons of grain and provides a nourishing diet for the world as a whole."

"(Jokingly) Sex in ten dimensions is impossible... topologically."

"Dozens of other popular authors have written about black holes and string theory, but Gefter’s excitement makes even such overdone subjects seem fresh. And through the whole process, she and her father remain awed by the physicists whose work they’re studying—late in the book, her father even asks Susskind for an autograph."