Gilbert K. Chesterton

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

I pass by people, grazing them on the edges, and it bothers me. I've got to admire someone to really like them deeply - to value them as friends.

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.