The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.

Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.

We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.

Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

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.

Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place.