There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.