“It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission.”

“The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.”

“Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down."(CBS 60 Minutes interview, March 6, 1983)”

“Wouldn’t it be dull to do things that ended?”

“It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission.”

“It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.”

“Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes.Granted, most writers I know are a bit strange.Some, downright weird.But then again, you’d have to be.To spend hundreds and hundreds of hours sitting in front of a computer screen staring at lines of information is pretty tedious. More like a computer programmer. And no matter how cool the Matrix made looking at code seem, computer programmers are even weirder than authors.”