It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.

There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.

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

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.

Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.

Obviously I was either onto something, or on something.

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