"We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact."

"I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life."

"The harmony of the universe dictates that the true master is an eternal student."

"It is a essential truth that the river of time washes away kings and empires, leaving only virtue intact — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Peace of heart is the greatest luxury life can bestow upon the mortal traveler. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions."

"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."

"Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live."