Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.

Technology is the name we give to stuff that doesn't work properly yet

What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming. By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you've learned something about it yourself... The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true?

The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.

And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him, and to water him.

...and the Universe, ... will explode later for your pleasure.

To boldly split infinitives that no man had split before.