My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.

I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.

I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.

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

It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.

If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.