Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.

Never assume the obvious is true.

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.

It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

From the time I could read, I found solace in my father's library...At the ages of ten and eleven and twelve I would have preferred to remain in the library...

Whenever you fall pick something up.

I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.

It's nice to be short, because people expect less from you.

Men go after me, and I choose among them.

Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.

I challenge you. Be obsessed with improvement!

It would be wonderful if people could grow together in groups, teaching and learning communities where they empower, evoke, explore the enormous capacities of the human condition.

The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.

In love, first please the eye, then win the heart.