In good prose lies sound unnatural.
May 262020
May 252020
My father’s two fundamental rules for computer programming were Optimize Later and Optimize Never; and this, like so much advice about programming, also goes for life.
May 222020
Just as there are ideas so mad that you must be clever to believe them, so there is behavior so weird that you must be clever to engage in it.
May 212020
To make an omelet you have to break a few eggs; to make a bigger one you have to break a few more; and to make an enormous, imperishable, world-historical omelet, millions of broken eggs are required.
May 202020
Local maxima are the root of all mediocrity.
May 192020
The free stuff is a nice perk of communism, but the real point was always the free love.
May 182020
Whether or not the last shall be first, the target demographic is apparent.
May 152020
A truth it profits no one to reveal never will be.
May 142020
Destroy the family, and what will replace it is the cult.
May 132020
It improves morale, in the war against insects, to remember that we are the underdog.