“I wanted a life full of intrigue and mystery, new environments, and new people...[a] temporary life with no fear of being trapped,”

“The people in the world, and the objects in it, and the world as a whole, are not absolute things, but on the contrary, are the phenomena of perception... If we were all alike: if we were millions of people saying do, re, mi, in unison, One poet would be enough... But we are not alone, and everything needs expounding all the time because, as people live and die, each one perceiving life and death for himself, and mostly by and in himself, there develops a curiosity about the perceptions of others. This is what makes it possible to go on saying new things about old things.”

“Before you code, think. Before you write, read. Before you speak, listen. Before you comment, reflect. Before you release, test.”

“First do it, then do it right, then do it better.”

“Really care about the tools you use because they are what make you your best.”

“I didn't know what to do with this new reality, the horror of my conception. I wanted to bury it in the backyard, far away from anyone's eyes. My skin crawled with knowledge, with the evil that I'd looked into, that had created me. I took long showers. Nothing helped. The dirt was on the inside.”

“But that was New Orleans for you. The old didn’t die here. They were just forgotten.”