"If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace."
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"You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it."
"It isn’t so much that we want to leave the person we are with as we want to leave the person we have become."
"Are you asking a question because you want to know the answer or are you asking the question because you want your partner to know that you are having this question?"
"I want to be a millionaire, and I don't ever want a real job."
"If you want to bond with your friends, do something very hard with them, something that you won't be able to do alone."
"I don't want to say I'd wipe everybody out, because that's cocky. But they wouldn't beat me."
"...I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it."
"Knowing exactly what you want to do, with unwavering conviction, is the spark that generates everything."
"If you want to be you, BE YOU!"
"There has never been a master plan. Anyone who wanted to do it, we fired because it takes on a life of its own and doesn't cover new reality. We want people taking into account new information."
"If you want pancakes for breakfast, offer to help make them."
"Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you, Other times it's because they don't want to hear you!"
"If you're smart, you often want a feedback loop so you know if what you've done is... is right."
"As you get to the end of the project you want to run all the tests cases against one version and make sure that you know that that version passed everything. And so as you get late in the project you get a little more conservative about making radical changes to the software."
"Is it my business if somebody wants to burn a flag?...No, it's not...That's called logic and it'll help us all evolve."
"Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesn't want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us."
"I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly."
"Life is a process, and you just take it a day at a time, and you can't live in tomorrow, and you can't reach back and be in yesterday. No matter how much you want to, you just have what's right there in front of you."
"I decided at the outset to invest in a fairly broad range of businesses, as I didn't want to get pigeonholed into one sector."