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.

The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.

Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.

Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.

The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

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.