“Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.”

“A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.”

“Don't force it; get a bigger hammer.”

“I computer sono inaffidabili, ma gli uomini ancora di più.”

“Ci sono quattro tipi di persone: quelli che stanno zitti e non fanno niente, quelli che parlano dello star zitti e non far niente, quelli che fanno qualcosa, e quelli che parlano del far qualcosa.”

“Everything in this business makes sense, because it serves a real purpose, fills a need that's a part of living. Even a single nail, like this one, fulfills a function. Drive it into a crucial place and you can depend on it to do a job, keep on doing it for a hundred years to come. Long after we're dead and gone, both of us.”

“All at once she could hear the sullen patter of the rain and sense the sigh of the wind behind it. She remembered the sound, because it had rained like that the day Mom was buried, the day they lowered her into that little rectangle of darkness.”