All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.