"Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work."

"A few months ago I was visiting my mother, and she said that as a child I had always wanted to learn everything, and …"

"You can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"

"In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll …"

"For all practical purposes, wheat is civilization. It produces what we euphemistically call the staff of life, a staf…"

"The Arkansawyers are of the type of the old Hoosiers, Crackers, Pikers, and the Big Smoky mountaineers. The Hoosiers …"

"What is a bore? Maxwell definition: a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. How do you…"

"Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking."

"Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church, or robbing a bank, but never to being bores."

"Oddly enough, modern gardens have become more and more scentless. Bigger, hardier, more beed flowers are the goal of …"