The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste mental energy.

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

Ah, but I am more perceptive than most of the universe. Especially the parts of the universe that are vacuum.

Everyone's life is a mess. Everyone's. We all make mistakes . . . and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people.

Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit.

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

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