“What I'd like is a lobotomy, a clean job, the top of my head neatly sawn off and designated contents removed.”

“To be completely helpless in the face of life―powerless to do a single thing―that's what I'd always feared more than anything. It was like I'd been keeping all the edges of my life neat and clean, pretending the neatness was all that mattered, pretending life could somehow be controlled.”

“I didn't know what would take my mind off the sexy Spartan, except for maybe a total lobotomy.”

“I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”

“I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”

“Debugging: what an odd word. As if "bugging" were the job of putting in bugs, and debugging the task of removing them. But no. The job of putting in bugs is called programming. A programmer writes some code and inevitably makes the mistakes that result in the malfunctions called bugs. Then, for some period of time, normally longer than the time it takes to design and write the code in the first place, the programmer tries to remove the mistakes.”