[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.

The hour of noon has passed,' said Judge Fang. 'Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken.

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

Even the best of us have certain psychological mechanisms that can suddenly kick in and turn us into monsters. That to me is the basic message of events like the rise of Nazism, the Salem witch trials, and so on: not that bad people do bad things, but that good people do bad things. It's distressingly easy for those mechanisms to be triggered, either consciously by demagogues, or naively by people who think they're trying to do the right thing. Which is why I think it's more akin to tic-tac-toe.

How could your cover be blown in Canada? Why even bother going dark there? How could you tell?

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

That's funny because if anyone actually did prove the existence of God we'd just tell him 'nice proof, Fraa Bly' and start believing in God.