Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error.

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.

To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.

American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.

Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are burdensome, flourish and die, reflourish and die again.

Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.

Youthful life is a beautiful bliss.

The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it.

For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!

The key, I suppose, has less to do with insight than with willingness, the former being relatively useless without the latter.

When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job.

For every low there is an equal but opposite high.

I sing, I clean house, I write poetry. I cry. And I tell everyone I can, "I Believe in YOU."

I was told from a very young age that I wasn't gonna be anything. That I wasn't gonna amount to a single thing.

Hiphop has remained in an infantile stage and has not been allowed to grow.

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.