Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
It is not a language’s weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.