"The problem to be solved is to output a value judgment about operating systems. The assumptions being (of course) that UNIX is good and Windows is bad." Understanding Object Oriented Programming

"Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto"

Latin Proverbs

When writing numerical dates please use the "YYYY-MM-DD" format, as per ISO 8601. For example, 2004-03-07. It makes life simpler for us all.

"In the tenth century...the Grand Vizier of Persia, Abdul Kassem Ismael, in order not to part with his collection of 117,000 volumes when travelling, had them carried by a caravan of four hundred camels trained to walk in alphabetical order." --Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

"The thing most feared in secret always happens." --Cesare Pavese, in his journal

Ashcroft is scary

"What I cannot create, I do not understand" --Richard Feynman

Hacker's Guide to Higher Math

Exotic words in the OED

"It’s a rejection card. How impersonal. Most places at least scribble something with a pen like “Good, but we’re out of business” or something. This was just a stupid card with some little ditty about plums..." Slushkiller

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." --Brian W. Kernighan

"Once upon a time, mighty Indra, lord of the heavens, king of the dawn, paused by the shores of the sea of milk and listened to the song it sang. "Just for a moment", he thought to himself. "That can't do any harm." But before he knew it, the song drew him headlong into the sea and he vanished, to be reborn in the world as a mortal..."

I'm a pig, not a god!

Koufax Awards for best lefty blogs

The Politics of Peer Review

"Java actually isn't a terrible language, compared to something like Perl for example, but there are some tremendous problems with it that I think don't get discussed openly enough..."

Java: Language of Tommorow ;)

Raiders of the Lost Ark, resurrected

Top 75 Network Security Tools

Left Anti-Intellectualism and Its Discontents

"As an adjective, "childfree" refers to one who does not have children, does not wish to have them, believes that he or she will never want children, actively plans his or her life so that he or she will not have children, and does not consider his or her life diminished by the absence of children. As a noun, it refers to someone who is childfree or a group of people who are childfree. Another word for this concept is "childless by choice...""

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years