The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.
She's not afraid. She's wearing a dentata.
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.
Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds.
When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.
You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake.
See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places.
Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.
The ways of God are entirely different from our ways. To us it seems necessary to employ powerful means in order to produce great effects. This is not God's method; quite the contrary. He likes to choose the weakest instruments that He may confound the strong: "God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong - Infirma mundi elegit ut confundat fortia".
Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.
We don't like mystery. You like mystery, 'cause it's not a mystery to you; you know when you're gonna get laid.