Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.

One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.

I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.

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.

While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.

Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.

"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.