A unit of documentation. There are always three or more on a given item. One is on the shelf; someone has the others. The information you need is in the others.

Fortunately, the second-to-last bug has just been fixed.

GOTO, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers.

The smile of a child is the inspiration for the future.

You lose everything you love in the order in which you love it.

Let your heart travel lightly. Because what you bring with you becomes part of the landscape.

The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science.

I dissolved, so white, so unapproachable, amid my white flame, in the whiteness of moonlight

Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.

For watching death, and above all, after death; not death in battle, but death after battle, brings one to certain indifferences that are also a form of death.

Parents often give middle names just so that later, when they're yelling at the kid, they can drag it out. Henry David Thoreau, you come in here this instant!

We should not oppose something just because it was appropriated by the wrong guys; rather, we should think about how to reappropriate it.

I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.