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

If you are concerned about netiquette, you are either concerned about your own and follow good netiquette, or you are concerned about others and violate good netiquette by bothering people with your concern, as the only netiquette you can actually affect is your own.

I have long since given up dealing with people who hold idiotic opinions as if they had arrived at them through thinking about them.

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

Life is hard, and then you die.

The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further the sum total of human knowledge in our life.

Life is too long to be good at C++ – if you had spent all that time to become good at it, you would essentially have to work with it, too, to get back the costs, and that would just be some long, drawn-out torture.