Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.

Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.

There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit.

You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.

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.

"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.

So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.