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.

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.

We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.

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

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

I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?