Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke.

There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.

Producing is the hardest of the three because there is almost no closure. Every time you solve a problem, another one pops up. Directing is second, and acting is the most fun.

Wes Craven is a wonderful friend, and we had a really good time together.

To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

There are a lot of people who influenced me, nurtured me, helped me along the way. But I can just recall looking back, the first time I got my baseball glove. Put it on the wrong hand, all those kind of things.

You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.