Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.

As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.

It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.

I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.

You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.

You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.

Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.