Do not imagine a picture of a giraffe in your mind at this time.

One guy: “I know why the donkey won’t go in the barn. His ears are too long to fit under the doorway. Let’s cut all the way around the walls and raise the roof of the barn by three inches.” Other guy: “Why don’t we just dig a little ramp through the doorway so he can walk down into it and pass through the door?” “Idiot! It’s his ears that are too long, not his legs.”

The world is experiencing technical difficulties. Do not adjust your mind.

Weeks of coding can save hours of planning.

Our enemies’ opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own. -François La Rochefoucauld-

There’s one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he’s crooked. -Mark Twain-

Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. The great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to freedom. -Milton Friedman-

I always take life with a grain of salt, plus a slice of lemon, and a shot of tequila.

Debugging is at least twice as hard as writing the program in the first place. So if your code is as clever as you can possibly make it, then by definition you’re not smart enough to debug it. -Brian W. Kernighan-

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. -Benjamin Franklin-