"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 …"

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

"Some questions are logically nonsensical because the querent thinks they know more than they do. A lot of these have …"

"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 …"