It is strange how the presence of additional people can make you feel more alone.

Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas.

That's the first rule of command; be consistent! You can be sadistic, you can be lazy, you can be stupid, but if you're consistent the crew will still let you sit in when they play dominoes.

It is strange how the presence of additional people can make you feel more alone.

What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?

Deliberate choices are the only sacred things in the universe. Everything else is just hydrogen.

You don’t free yourself from duty by running away. That only increases the weight on your shoulders.