Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.

It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.

Obviously I was either onto something, or on something.

An initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.

A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.

Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.

In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.