I have a very hard time picturing myself in a room with some type of goo oozing out of an air vent and killing me; that doesn't really scare me because I don't think that's going to happen to me.
There are some lives duller Than dusty glass
Like a kite Cut from the string, Lightly the soul of my youth Has taken flight.
Like a stone That rolls down a hill, I have come to this day.
When I breathe, This sound in my chest Lonelier than the winter wind
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
One of the things that drives me is the excitement that I could fail. What better buzz can you get?
It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's; remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic.