If you are a professional writer - i.e., if someone else is getting paid to worry about how your words are formatted and printed - Emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish.

See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places.

It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail.

The sight of the bare katana inspires everyone to a practically Nipponese level of politeness

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.

I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there." There might as well be, "Arsibalt said, "but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water and bombs. There is only so much that can be scraped together for particle accelerators.

Leibniz is at the disadvantage of not having seen it. Or perhaps we should count this as an advantage, for anyone who sees it is dumbfounded by the brilliance of the geometry, and it is difficult to criticize a man’s work when you are down on your knees shielding your eyes.