I spent years trying to find some use for inheritance and virtuals, before I understood why that mechanism was fundamentally flawed and should not be used.

I think that object orientedness is almost as much of a hoax as artificial intelligence.

Complexity assertions have to be part of the interface

I find OOP technically unsound.

I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it

The Jinmoti of Bozlen Two kill the hereditary ritual assassins of the new Yearking's immediate family by drowning them in the tears of the Continental Empathaur in its Sadness Season.

The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.'

You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is your self left over from yesterday.

Because I'm a Thunderclan cat like you," she replied, ad darker shadow in the darkness of the tunnel. "My name is Hollyleaf

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

Busy idleness urges us on.

To write for children at all is an act of faith.

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity.

No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.