I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.

We reject kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in rough consensus and running code.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Take away their language, destroy their souls.

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it
through not dying.

The fact of grammar, a universal trait of language, is simply a generalized expression of the feeling that analogous concepts and relations are most conveniently symbolized in analogous forms. Were a language ever completely “grammatical,” it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All grammars leak.

If I ever have twins, I’d use one for parts.

In a free country, it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.

Whoever you hate -will- end up in your family. If you’re homophobic, you gonna have a gay son.