“My motivation is my passion for dancing and choreography, and my love for the creative process.”— Paula Abdul
“There's a certain joy in hacking - not breaking into computers - but in making a computer do something it was never intended to do.”— Eric Allman
“There is no faculty of the human mind which is capable of such stretch of exertion as the fancy, when it is warmed by the passions.”— John Philpot Curran
“I used codes that were actually used historically, and I developed some of my own.”— James Sanborn
“I'm attracted to creative people and train wrecks, and there's no shortage of that in Los Angeles.”— Terry Zwigoff
“The work of the poet is to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar.”— Lascelles Abercrombie
“A pattern language is a system which allows its users to create an infinite variety of new and unique buildings, just as a language allows its users to create an infinite variety of sentences.”— Christopher Alexander
“At a certain point, you have to convince the publisher that you've found something new.”— Chris Van Allsburg
“A picture is something which requires as much trickery, malice and vice as the perpetration of a crime.”— Balthus
“Ideas are cheap. A dime a dozen, as they say. It's the implementation that's important! The trick isn't just to have a brilliant idea, it's to find the brilliance in the implementation.”— Iain Banks