I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person.

When a person is truly bright, s/he travels always light because a sensible solely knows that it’s only way right to make the life’s journey pleasurable. Otherwise, obviously miserable for then it’s like boarding on a train, bus or plane by carrying along an entourage and/or too much luggage to crowd the place that merely causes discomfort to others and to own an excruciating pain.

She was like a sheet anchor sometimes, a steadying influence on him, on everyone around her. Made people laugh, that sensible streak in her, but it also made her someone of substance.

It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.'

There are really smart baseball players. It's a thinking person's game.

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.