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I think I write for reluctant readers. Of course I want everyone to enjoy my books, but if the kids in the back row who normally don’t pick up a book are engaged with what I’m writing, along with the kids who are big readers anyway, then I really feel like I’ve done my job.

The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.

The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.

I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.

Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.

I think,” Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, “that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live.

They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.

I’m proud to have been a Yankee. But I have found more happiness and contentment since I came back home to San Francisco than any man has a right to deserve. This is the friendliest city in the world.

We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule.

If people really liked to work, we’d still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.