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.

This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my best to fake it.

True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.

Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.

Laziness is a programmers main virtue.

A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something; they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.