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.

The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.

It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.

I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.

One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.

Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow. Like a variant of the song, Tomorrow, only it's more of the idea, the Mexican idea of mañana, you know, [singing] mañana, mañana, I love you, mañana, you're always a day away.