Life is hard, and then you die.

Languages shape the way we think, or don't.

Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that makes those who disagree with it want to obey its principles.

That's why the smartest companies use Common Lisp, but lie about it so all their competitors think Lisp is slow and C++ is fast.

Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.

Those who write software only for pay should go hurt some other field.

Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm.