It's strange that student debt is higher than ever at the same time that educating oneself is easier than ever. - Paul Graham

As a rule of thumb, the more qualifiers there are before the name of a country, the more corrupt the rulers. A country called The Socialist People's Democratic Republic of X is probably the last place in the world you'd want to live.

If you try to solve a hard problem, the question is not whether you will use a powerful enough language, but whether you will (a) use a powerful language, (b) write a de facto interpreter for one, or (c) yourself become a human compiler for one.

Sometimes people who discover a new kind of work know that they have. Other times they just do something so well that imitating them becomes a genre.