Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.

Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.

I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.

Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, "Oh, that's a cool way to say it," and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.

A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.

The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.

We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.