Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.

MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way.

C++ is the best example of second-system effect since OS/360.

Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.

A bit of tolerance is worth a megabyte of flamming.

Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better.

If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.

To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.

Progress requires setbacks the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.

You and I are stymied in our own creativity. We can only create as sub-creators, and even then our best work is only sub-creation.

Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.

My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

If there were a god, don't you think he would have flicked Hitler's head off?

Live beyond your means, then you're forced to work hard, you have to succeed.

What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?

The wages of Gin is Debt.

Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method.

I think there could be a very large number who are creationists by default. Those are the people I want to reach.