Quotes About Author

My main message is that I have a problem with the Islamicisation of our societies.

I speak at various events, including student societies, several times a week.

When people write about secret societies, there is a desire to demystify them. I wanted to hyper-mystify them.

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

Attempts to construct an ethic from the rules of evolution, or from psychology and sociology, end up being simply inadequate.

I did basic embroidery and can probably mend a sock.

The term 'Sock it to me!' was a big, big thing in our neighborhood - all the kids were saying it.

Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.

My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.

I'm a real soft, sentimental guy who dreams up decapitations.

I am a lefty, though I bat right-handed... When I was a kid I pitched, played first, outfield and shortstop as well. Now it's mainly softball with some friends.

Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.

For me, it always comes back to the blogger, the author, the designer, the developer. You build software for that core individual person, and then smart organisations adopt it and dumb organisations die.

I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I hold my nose and click 'agree.'

I don't naturally have the body language of a software guy.

I'm also the chairman of the board of Symantec, which is the world's largest cybersecurity - software cybersecurity company.

I'm kind of a retired software engineer. I don't write code anymore.

Out of the five years I spent in software, I was in the U.S. for two.

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.

In my darkest moments, I have not eaten an entire pie, but I have turned to other baked goods to find solace.

The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it.

The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.

I think that commercials can really ruin a song. You know that the person sold the song for a good deal of money, and that was the tradeoff. But, music and picture can marry in a beautiful way, and the reverse also.

I want my books sold on airport bookstalls.