Time is our element, not a mistaken invader.
There is no such thing as a free variable.
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.
It was not the beautiful or pleasant feelings that gave me new insight, but the ones against which I fought most strongly: feelings that made me experience myself as shabby, petty, mean, helpless, humiliated, demanding, resentful or confused, and above all, sad and lonely. It was precisely through these experiences, which I had shunned for so long, that I became certain that I now understood something about my life, stemming from the core of my being, something that I could not have learned from any book.
I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.