Donald Knuth

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you.